The Least Tern 



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-<o 



Taken at Sandyland 



STANDING HER GROUND 



Photo by the Author 



instrument than a pressure of the breast upon the sand. Home has no 

 slightest connotation for her beyond that of locality, the place, perforce, 

 where earth and sky must meet. For herself she would fainest linger 

 ever in the air, descending only momentarily to seize her sustenance from 

 the billow. But Nature in her wisdom has not seen fit to perfect a 

 method by which such airy fairy creatures may perpetuate their 

 kind, save by vulgar contact with the earth. And if it were not 

 so, we should learn no more about them than we know of wandering 

 comets. These Least Terns shall form no exception to the living 



Taken in Monterey County 



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LESS THAN THE LEAST 



IN OTHER WORDS, LITTLE LEAST TERNS 



Photo by the Author 



