Least Terns: York County, Maine, USA, June 2024 — Apparently a new group of Least Terns, perhaps a dozen, have moved up to our local beach for second nests. They were actively courting yesterday, with a good amount of eel offering. I even got to see one actual exchange, and maybe caught a pair mating. Not this pair. This is just the exchange. There is no way Facebook would keep the images in the right order, so I have made them into a read right and down composite. If you are viewing on a phone you may want to pinch and zoom out to see each individual frame. Right place, right time, and ready! That is the key to wildlife photography. 🙂 OM System OM-1Mkii with M.Zuiko ED 100-400IS zoom at 656mm equivalent (cropped to fill the frame…I was shooting terns in flight, for which I find that 600mm works better than 800, and did not get zoomed back out to 800mm for these beach shots…so, maybe, not quite ready…but the sequence only lasted a second or two, and I got the shots :). Program mode with my birds-in-flight and action modifications. Processed in Photomator and assembled in FrameMagic.