Two Tentative Terns

Artist Emil Morhardt depicts an Elegant Tern and a Forster's Tern hanging together in the winter shallows of the Santa Barbara beach in California. Their evening reflections ripple above the water highlighted in gold, silver, and copper leaf. While the Elegant Terns show up in huge flocks, the much smaller Forster's tern is uncommon in Santa Barbara, and so a treat to see.