{"id":64106,"date":"2014-03-08T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=b9b6b8b9a6520133375b3e31df9267aa"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:42:48","slug":"caspian-terns-on-lake-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/caspian-terns-on-lake-monroe\/","title":{"rendered":"Caspian Terns on Lake Monroe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ugh! It’s been two full weeks since I’ve done a blog post! I’ve been busy at home and work, but I’ve also had a little bit of a photographic lull. Weather conditions have made for relatively poor lighting, but mostly I’m just behind in editing photos. Well, this morning I went to the marina on Lake Monroe. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Lake Monroe Marina – Caspian Tern<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

It’s a pretty nice marina, for the most part, and a friend of mine found a Royal Tern there yesterday, so I thought I’d see if it was sticking around. Unfortunately, it wasn’t there today when I was. But there were about 10 Forster’s Terns and 12 Caspian Terns around, and several of them were pretty actively flying near the edge of the marina in decent light.<\/p>\n

So I took a few Caspian Tern pictures. For some reason I have a tougher time with Caspian Terns than with others. I believe it’s the eyes. It seems far more difficult to get catch light in them, and so they often look sunken into the head and less attractive.<\/p>\n

So this morning I concentrated on getting good catch light, and a few of them turned out. The catch light makes all the difference.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Lake Monroe Marina – Caspian Tern<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Lake Monroe Marina – Caspian Tern<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ugh! It’s been two full weeks since I’ve done a blog post! I’ve been busy at home and work, but I’ve also had a little bit of a photographic lull. Weather conditions have made for relatively poor lighting, but mostly I’m just behind in editing photos. Well, this morning I went to the marina on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2147937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[747,6271,1611,2465],"class_list":["post-64106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-caspian-tern","tag-forsters-tern","tag-royal-tern","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}