Sometime wanderer. When not wandering, probably north of you. Commercial wildlife photographer (they/them)
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I have a dedicated tern-deterrent aerial that clips on my backpack at this time of year, so they swoop the top of that. Didn't stop one of them doing a battle shit on my hat last year, though.
Literally nothing on this island freezes my blood more than the ratchet-like call of an angry tern and we have *polar bears* 😆
One of my GPS stations in southeast Alaska is near a place where both Arctic and Aleutian terns hang out. I try to bring multiple people so that someone can serve as a dedicated tern lookout, but blood still gets shed. The birds also like to perch on the station's solar panels and poop on them.
