Work asked me to go over to the island and count the birds on the man-made islands in the lagoon...and take pictures. Fun fun fun.


Black Headed gull nest building 2 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Black Headed Gulls Mating by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Common Tern attacking Shelduck 1 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Common Terns mating by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

Med gulls are pretty rare

Med Gull On Post 2 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Nesting Black Headed Gull by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Sandwich Tern Moult by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Sandwich Tern with Sand eel by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Sandwich Terns Courting by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Sandwich Terns displaying 3 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


This one would have been great if it weren't for the photo bombing black-headed gull in the background.

Common Tern by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

Rest of the photos are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zpyder/sets/72157629775799552

It was pretty hilarious when an elderly couple came in each with mahoosive lenses on what looked like some top-line Nikons. The gent had that neoprene camo cover stuff on his lens, and they both had handles mounted underneath the lenses, handling the cameras like they were machine guns (and they sounded like it too). While they were in the hide I felt like it had turned into some kind of machine gun emplacement. They both would sit there and then one would nudge/point/grunt and they'd both swing their cameras around and take craploads of photos in a continuous burst as a tern flew past. I can't help but wonder how many hundreds (thousands) of photos they have of the same thing :|

I was just trying to get photos of as many different kinds of bird behaviour as possible for uni to use in future work. Avian sexy-time was included!

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Could someone pass the bread loaf? Time for some sandwiches 

Nice photographs there, looks cold though.

Nice in flight photos, something I've not managed to really get myself yet.

I wouldn't worry too much about the white balance it looks alright to me, but its up to you as you were there at the time, if you think they look a little cold then go for it.