Terns have a large repertoire of cool behaviors, and this is one of them. They hover over the water looking for a fish and then dive into the water to catch it. When they come up from the water they do a head and body shake (kind of like a wet dog) to get the water off. Photographing the shake can be a little tricky because maintaining AF can be challenging as the terns emerge from the water and start to fly up. Most of my frames have a nicitating membrane over the eye, but not this one.
Canon 1D Mark IV, 500mm, f/6.3, 1/4000, ISO 400, manual exposure, hand held







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