Image 100163247 by Bob Pelkey


14-JUL-2008	Click image to return to gallery

Sterna antillarum

Least Tern juvenile at Lovers Key State Park
Fort Myers Beach, Florida USA

Nikon D80 ,Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED AF-S VR Zoom
1/1000s f/5.6 at 300.0mm iso200, with flash full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto

All photographs copyright ŠRobert Pelkey 2007-Present and may not be used without permission.

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Bob Pelkey		23-Aug-2008 18:19
A revisit to this photograph has me consider the relatively calm weather conditions at the time the shot was taken, while the state of Florida this past week had been impacted through landfall by tropical storm Fay four times. The first time such an event has occurred in recorded history. Winds had only been recorded below hurricane status, but the tides had been a foot or more above normal conditions with wave heights that would be envious to surfers and certainly devastating to the nesting tern colony which had completely vanished naturally by very early August 2008.

Guest		15-Jul-2008 02:14
Perfect timing.

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