We encountered the extremely beautiful Swalllow-tailed Gull on several islands, but our best chances were on Hood/Espanola. Time after time I had one of them teed up on a rock with a great Pacific ocean BKGR but each time they would fly away the instant that I started to focus. It got to be almost comical... I finally got two decent frames of this bird as it was displaying.
They are strictly nocturnal feeders thus the relatively huge eyes.
Canon 400mm f/4 IS DO lens with the EOS-40D on the Mongoose M3.5/Gitzo 3530 LS combo. ISO 400. Evaluative metering =1 1/3 stops: 1/1600 sec. at f/5.
Don't be shy. All comments welcome.







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