Frenzy
This group of Bonaparte's Gulls found something to get excited about and were making quite a racket. Chickakoo Lake recreation area, Parkland County.
Black Tern
Feeding over the Sturgeon River in St Albert.
Juvenile Tern
Not sure which variety, feeding over the Sturgeon River in St Albert.
Black Terns
Feeding over the Sturgeon River in St Albert
Franklins
Big Lake comes alive as the previous day of heat has given life to the water borne insects, and food for the Franklin gulls. In the foreground waterfowl continue their spring rituals apparently unfazed by the influx of gulls. Lois Hole Park, St Albert.
Job done, for now
An adult Black Tern shuttles between harassing me and feeding dragonflies to one of the juveniles in the Big Lake wetlands
Incoming
A juvenile Black Tern anticipates the delivery of it's next snack, Big Lake wetlands
Precision flying
An adult Black Tern plops a bug into the young one's mouth. Sturgeon River, St Albert
Black Terns on the Sturgeon River
An adult swoops in with a bug to feed to one of its young which is sitting on a reed that is floating in the Sturgeon River near at the outfall from Big Lake, St Albert..
Black Tern (Fledgling)
Big Lake Interpretive trail
Black Tern in flight
Big Lake Interpretive trail.
Tern Rage
Black Terns sure know how to let you know they don't want you there when you stroll on a trail close to where they have chosen to nest and raise their young.
Two for one
A Franklin's Gull carrying nest building materials at Big Lake.
Black Terns warning me off their nesting site at Big Lake - I left
Diving in to warn me off, taken at the Big Lake wetlands
Birds galore
View of the activity over the expanded Franklins Gull colony looking west from the interpretive trail at Big Lake
