A walk along the breakwall in stockton with the family yesterday was not only windy and wet, but also a new bird day. At the end of the breakwall I was trying to photograph a tern with a blacker head than the normal Crested Terns, but it's high speed and unpredictable flight with the winds made it pretty much impossible to capture for an ID shot. After giving up on the bird I ventured out to the end rocks where a small flock of little birds were skimming the water. After watching them for a while it was time to walk back to the car with the family, so I snapped a few average photos to take home for ID purposes and headed off.
ID'ing these birds prooved fairly easy and I quickly discovered that I had a new tick. White-winged Black Terns! The bird in the photo appears to be a juvenile but they definitely don't look like their name suggests. Names based on breeding plumage makes non breeding birds tougher to ID for sure. :)
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