The Least Tern 
Taken at Sandyland Photo by the Author 
STANDING HER GROUND 
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 
Photo by the Author 
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LESS THAN THE LEAST 
IN OTHER WORDS, LITTLE LEAST TERNS 
