{"id":9144,"date":"2016-07-30T06:40:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T10:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2016-07-30T06:40:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T10:40:44","slug":"common-tern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=9144","title":{"rendered":"Common Tern :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- This default template simple inserts each image with the correct width and height --><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 2010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC05413-2-1.jpg?resize=904%2C603\" width=\"904\" height=\"603\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Common Tern, Mousam River mouth, Kennebunk Maine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Common Terns are having a meeting<br \/>\nat the mouth of the Mousam River,<br \/>\nwhere it runs into the sea. Some fishy<br \/>\nthing must be running because they are<br \/>\nactive\u00a0in large numbers along the coast<br \/>\nand up the river a quarter mile. They rest<br \/>\nalong the sandbar where Back Creek meets<br \/>\nthe Mousam, and are a constantly\u00a0evolving<br \/>\ngyration of birds along the far shore, diving on<br \/>\nthat fishy thing, and then coming back to the<br \/>\nsand bar to show off their catch. Watching<br \/>\nthem puts any airshow you ever saw to shame.<br \/>\nNothing can match the grace and ease of\u00a0those<br \/>\nwho&#8217;s lives depend on their prowess in the air.<\/p>\n<p>And I tried to catch just a bit of that with my camera \ud83d\ude42 Sony RX10iii in my slightly customized Sports Mode. 1\/1000th @ f6.3 @ ISO 100. About 470mm equivalent. 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Some fishy thing must be running because they are active\u00a0in large numbers along the coast and up the river a quarter mile. They rest along the sandbar where Back Creek meets the Mousam, and are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-9144\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=9144&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-9144\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=9144&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=9144&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,6,10,11,130,57,135,78,1,118],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26ui8-2nu","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9146,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions\/9146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}