Terns at Inskip

This post is for World Bird Wednesday.

While I was out at Inskip Point yesterday afternoon I saw a small flock of terns roosting on the sand at the point.
Crested Terns have been away nesting on islands off the coast but this flock had a mixture of birds at all stages. Some were in scruffy looking non-breeding plumage, there were a few that had almost full breeding plumage and there were some very noisy juveniles as well. I also saw two Little Terns which looked extra small standing in among the much larger Crested Terns.
I always think that Crested Terns are extra noisy and this flock was noisy and unsettled. Birds kept flying off and then coming back to rest again. This is a juvenile bird.
This photo shows why the flock was so disturbed. I was focused on the bird that was closer to me but the one in the background has a fish in its beak.

Inskip Point

This post is for World Bird Wednesday.
Yesterday was again gray and showery but since the rain was not constant I decided I would drive over to Inskip Point and see what the rough weather had done to the area. There were very few campers around and even the point had only a couple of cars and fishermen out at the edge of the sea. This photo is taken looking along the channel out towards the open ocean.
The only birds were a few gulls and terns.
This Crested Tern (Sterna bergii) looked very smart in breeding plumage.
This is a one year old Crested Tern in non-breeding plumage.
There was one Caspian Tern (Hydropogne caspia)- in non-breeding plumage. Caspian Terns the largest of all the terns we see.
Driving home between Inskip Point and Rainbow Beach we saw this dingo on the road. As the car approached it disappeared into the brush on the side of the road. There was no traffic around so I slowed to a walk and we carefully looked behind every bush. The dingo was sitting just off the road between a couple of bushes but clearly visible from the right angle. It was not at all worried about the car stopping on the other side of the road and I even had time to change from my wide angle lens to the long lens. Very few dingos here on the mainland are pure-bred and I have no idea how much plain "dog" went into this one's breeding.

Crested Tern

I love watching Terns flying over the ocean. I keep taking more photos hoping some day to catch the perfect moment! Watery Wednesday seemed like a good excuse to post another photo of one.