This page contains 36 large signed images that, except for the last image,
were taken during two sessions at Bolsa Chica Wildlife Refuge in Huntington Beach.

The last image was taken earlier, and is provided at 1600 x 1200.
All other images (except for two portrait-oriented shots) are 1500 x 1000 pixels.

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Elegant Tern closeup X4570

Elegant Tern closeup X5021

Elegant Tern closeup X5029

Elegant Tern Fish HS5386

Elegant Tern Spitting Fish HS5471

Elegant Tern Fish HS5472

Elegant Tern HS4888

Elegant Tern HS4942

Elegant Tern HS5416

Elegant Tern HS5420

Elegant Tern Exorcist Twist HS5444

Elegant Tern shakeoff HS4897

Elegant Tern shakeoff HS4909

Elegant Tern shakeoff HS4919

Elegant Tern Twist HS4901

Elegant Tern HS4679

Elegant Tern HS5422

Elegant Tern HS4971

Elegant Tern soaring X4558

Elegant Tern soaring HS5247

Elegant Tern HS5522

Elegant Tern HS5591

Elegant Tern HS5595

Elegant Tern HS5606

Elegant Tern HS5605

Elegant Tern takeoff HS4996

Elegant Tern takeoff HS5013

Elegant Tern takeoff HS5603

Elegant Tern takeoff X4657

Elegant Tern takeoff X4684

Elegant Tern takeoff X4705

Elegant Tern takeoff X4708

Elegant Tern takeoff X4721

Elegant Tern takeoff X5003
(look carefully... you’ll see he dropped his fish)
 

Elegant Tern takeoff X5039
(head-on takeoff shots are exceedingly difficult)

Forster’s Tern HS1230

This image is of a different type of Tern (note the beak color and tip, and darker wingtips).

For more Terns and other birds, click the image above to visit the Bolsa Chica Wildlife Refuge section.