While at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach California doing some digiscoping, I could not resist trying to catch the Caspian Terns as they hunted over the boardwalk/bridge with my Nikon Coolpix P500. Bad light, fast birds, but still, you have to try.

This sequence captures the beginning of a dive that brought the bird into the water only about 30 feet out from where we were standing. Number 3 is my favorite, but the whole sequence builds an impression that no single image can. To have a chance of catching the birds moving this fast, I had to back the zoom off to medium telephoto.

Nikon Coolpix P500 using my custom Flight and Action program. 160mm equivalent field of view, f6.3 @ 1/800th @ ISO 160.

Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness. Cropped for image scale.