This page contains 36 large signed images that, except for the last image,
were taken during two sessions at Bolsa Chica Wildlife Refuge in Huntington Beach.

The last image was taken earlier, and is provided at 1600 x 1200 for use as wallpaper.
All of the other images (except for the two portrait-oriented shots) are 1500 x 1000 pixels.

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Elegant Tern closeup X4570
 

Elegant Tern closeup X5021
 

Elegant Tern closeup X5029
 

Elegant Tern Fish HS5386
 

Elegant Tern Spitting Fish HS5471
 

Elegant Tern Fish HS5472
 

Elegant Tern HS4888
 

Elegant Tern HS4942
 

Elegant Tern HS5416
 

Elegant Tern HS5420
 

Elegant Tern Exorcist Twist HS5444
 

Elegant Tern shakeoff HS4897
 

Elegant Tern shakeoff HS4909
 

Elegant Tern shakeoff HS4919
 

Elegant Tern Twist HS4901
 

Elegant Tern HS4679
 

Elegant Tern HS5422
 

Elegant Tern HS4971
 

Elegant Tern soaring X4558
 

Elegant Tern soaring HS5247
 

Elegant Tern HS5522
 

Elegant Tern HS5591
 

Elegant Tern HS5595
 

Elegant Tern HS5606
 

Elegant Tern HS5605
 

Elegant Tern takeoff HS4996
 

Elegant Tern takeoff HS5013
 

Elegant Tern takeoff HS5603
 

Elegant Tern takeoff X4657
 

Elegant Tern takeoff X4684
 

Elegant Tern takeoff X4705
 

Elegant Tern takeoff X4708
 

Elegant Tern takeoff X4721
 

Elegant Tern takeoff X5003
(look carefully... you’ll see he dropped his fish)
 

Elegant Tern takeoff X5039
(head-on takeoff shots are exceedingly difficult)
 

Forster’s Tern HS1230

This image is of a different type of Tern (note the beak color and tip, and darker wingtips).
This image is provided in 1600 x 1200 resolution for use as computer wallpaper.

For more Terns and other birds, click the image
above to visit the Bolsa Chica Wildlife Refuge section