May 13

Elegance is a very subjective term. Greyhounds, Grace Kelly and seagulls are elegant but Italian Greyhounds, Audrey Hepburn and Terns are even more elegant. This is a Common Tern swooping down for a fish in Belle Isle Creek. It is slim and acrobatic. A seagull can certainly fly and soar but a tern simply outclasses a gull. I admit to being biased but they are such appealing birds. I don’t see terns that often at Belle Isle. They are not rare or unusual visitors but they aren’t around all the time. That makes them a delight when they hover over the creek and pannes looking for fish. A Belle Isle Osprey appeared absolutely elephantine when I saw a tern nearby today. The Brant are still around in large numbers. They were feeding in the grass at the Beachmont School this morning. The wind was ferocious and so the small birds were not so evident today. One Snowy Egret was so hunched over in the face of the wind that I first mistook it for a plastic bag. If the wind had been just a bit less fierce this would have been a first class day. As it was, it was merely terrific.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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