The birds are slim and dark with black heads, necks, and breasts. Their wings are a light gray and sometimes you can catch a glimpse of white undertail coverts. Black Terns!
At Fair Meadows Sanctuary, one fact has been made abundantly clear: there is keen competition for nesting sites, both in artificial structures and in tree cavities.
It’s one of those cool, misty mornings in late July. I am awakened at 5:30 by a sweet song in the nearby prairie—the paired notes of an Indigo Bunting.