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Tara\/White-fronted Tern with fish, Te Puru, Coromandel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After our visit to Hahei photographing NZ Dotterels<\/a>, Gannets<\/a> and Cathedral Cove<\/a> we crossed to the western side of the Coromandel Peninsula for a couple of days at Te Puru just north of Thames. The shallow Firth of Thames is a rich environment with the legendary P\u016bkorokoro\/Miranda Shorebird Centre<\/a> on its western shore. There are usually clouds of Tara\/Terns at P\u016bkorokoro\/Miranda and the eastern side of the Firth has a good population too. I have often photographed them at Te Puru and on this Spring visit there was a good collection of courting birds near the boat ramp. This gave excellent opportunities for flight shots with many birds carrying anchovies as offerings to potential partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tara\/Whitefronted Tern\/ Sterna striata<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When there is so much activity it can be hard to focus on one specimen to get a good image. I found it best to try and lock onto an individual flying in with a fish and then track him in the hope of catching some interesting behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overview of the collection of terns at Te Puru<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

With busy environments like this is is difficult to get backgrounds without too many distractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tara\/tern flying over the begging cries from below<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The net result is similar to when doing slow shutter pan\/blurs. Lost of images that need culling. The frustrating part is that there are often some interesting images that are just not useable because of distractions that destroy the composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tara\/Tern looking for a landing zone amidst the crowd<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My hope, with all this activity, was to get some images documenting courtship feeding and mating. While not completely successful, I will share some more images next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tara\/Tern coming in to land<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Photos with Nikon D850 and Nikon 500mm f5.6PF lens. Overview photo by Angela with iPhone 5SE. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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