Birds Sandwich Tern and Atlantic Needlefish

[Bryan wilburn]

I love watching Terns. But it is a love hate relationship. I normally shoot with my R5 and 100-500 with a 1.4x, but find the FOV is simply too narrow to track them at close range.

The other issue is the camera often switched focal point to a wave as they dive. In this case everything worked.

Shot along the Padre Island national Seashore in Texas on the Gulf coast, Canon R5 100-500 @500mm f9 1/8000th ISO1600

 

[TwoWheeler]

I love watching Terns.

I used to live on a lake and loved watching terns, too. I could tell by the hover/stutter-y thing they did with their wings that they were eyeballing something. More often than not, they’d dive and come up with something, but sometimes they just moved on without diving.