{"id":2123,"date":"2011-06-22T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/2011\/06\/22\/6212011-caspian-tern-wings-on-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T10:30:00","slug":"6212011-caspian-tern-wings-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"6\/21\/2011: Caspian Tern, Wings on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness. Cropped for image scale.<\/p>\n

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