Sandwich Terns
.
Trying to capture diving pelicans, a couple of terns kept entering the picture. So I photographed them too. Always good to practice!
At photo download, I got a few good photos of the terns. Looking a little closer to ID the tern species, I noticed their black beak had a yellow tip. That’s new to me, I thought.
Welcome to my bird lifer list #218 Sandwich Tern!
.
Sandwich Tern
.
Sandwich Tern
.
Sandwich Terns live along the marine coasts of southeastern United States and the Caribbean.
.
Sandwich Tern
.
You just never know when a new lifer will pop up! 😉
.
.
Photos by Donna 
By having a ‘hunch’ you’ve nailed yourself another to your ever growing list! Pays to keep your eyes open and take some shots ‘just in case’.
Thank you, Brian! Practice shots nails lifer, yay, great headline! 🙂
Good thing you decided to photograph them and get some b-i-f practice in! Congratulations on the lifer!
Thank you, Deborah! I’m going to start photographing more of the gulls and terns. There’s quite a few I still don’t have, they are so intimidating in IDing, expecially the juveniles! 😉
They are, just like sparrows!
Ugh….them too. 😉 hehe
😀🤪
Excellent! Well done!! 😊
Thank you, Mike!! 😊
Superb!!!
Thank you, Jyothi!
What a terrific surprise for you to ID the sandwich tern, Donna. That little dot of yellow on the bill is very obscure. Great photos, too.
Thank you, Jet, it was a happy-dance surprise! 😉
Very Nice Donna! Congrats on adding to your list!
Thank you very much, Reed!
Congratulation for your Lifer #218. Great shots! 🙂
Thank you very much, HJ! 🙂
Well done Donna, and some great captures, though the name of the bird is curious.
Did a little research. The name comes from the coastal town of Sandwich in Kent UK which was the home of the man who first described the bird, John Latham in 1787.
Thanks for the research check, Brian! It makes sense now on this tern’s name! 🙂
Thank you, Ashley! It is an ‘odd’ name. After your comment, Brian commented he researched it, the name comes from the coastal town of Sandwich in Kent UK which was the home of the man who first described the bird, John Latham in 1787. 🙂
Interesting Donna, as it was the Earl of Sandwich who invented the sandwich as we know it 😊
Always a thrill 😊. Very nice, Donna!
Thank you, Belinda! 💃
Congrats on another lifer, Donna! The smooth aerodynamics of terns, and this one esp., amaze me. Great captures showing different aspects. 🙂
Thank you very much, Eliza! I was certainly happy that I took many photos, the terns were really coming in close, helped to ID easily. Lucky me for sure! 🙂
Beautiful birds.
Thank you, Tom!
Beautiful. Sandwich must be the name of the person that identified the species?
Thanks Vic. The name comes from the coastal town of Sandwich in Kent UK which was the home of the man who first described the bird, John Latham in 1787.
Ah. Ok. Location not person. Cool.
Would have been cool too if the bird stole a sandwich from the person who discovered it. hehe
Heh. When I saw your heading, I was prepared to see shots of a Tern stealing someone’s lunch! 😄
Nice shots. How fortunate that when shooting pelicans you were able to sandwich in a lifer. 🙂
😅 😂 Good one, David! Thanks!!
That was a nice surprise — a new life bird caught on the sideline. 🙂 Very nice pictures! I never heard of a sandwich tern before. Wondering about the name…
Thank you, Barbara! It’d be cool to think it was because the guy who discovered the tern had his sandwich stolen by it. 😉 Actually, the name comes from the coastal town of Sandwich in Kent UK which was the home of the man who first described the bird, John Latham in 1787. Brian (blhphotoblog) in previous comment had his curiosity picked too, and he researched/passed it on for us so kindly! 🙂
Ah, thank you both for sharing! 🙂
Great photos as usual! 🙂
Thank you kindly! 😊
Yay! Another lifer! 😋
💃💃💃 dance with me, Gunta! 🥰