Silent Sunday

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common tern, Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, photography, postaday

Common Tern.

Common Tern.

Common Tern.

Common Tern.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful

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This Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge is at the following URL:

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/graceful/

The following series of photos shows Common Terns doing graceful acrobatics to find food at the Edwin B Forsythe Wildlife Refuge.

Common Terns fishing.

Common Tern fishing.

Common Tern missed catching a fish.

Common Tern, a fraction of a second after missing a fish.

Wordless Wednesday: Flight

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Bomaby Hook National Wildlife Refuge, canada geese, common tern, Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, great egret, photography, postaday, snowy egret

Northern Shovelers at Edwin B Sorsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

Canada Geese at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.

Common Tern at Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

Snowy Egrets at Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

Great Egret at Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

Sandpipers, Red-Winged Blackbird and Others

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common tern, laughing gull, photography, postaday, ring-billed gull, sandpipers, wed-winged blackbird

Today a friend and I went to the southernmost part of New Jersey on the Delaware Bay. It was too early for the annual coming ashore of the horseshoe crab, which will happen in about two weeks. So we walked on the beach and I was able to take my first best shot of the red-winged blackbird, which some say is the most common bird in North America.

Red-winged Blackbird

There were also other birds of course, such as sandpipers, gulls, and terns.

Sandpipers

Sandpipers are small birds, not much bigger than sparrows, but the terns and gulls were larger.

Common Tern

The common tern is noticeable by its short feet.

Ring-Billed Gulls

Laughing Gull