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Home > Blog > Fauna > Birds > Fleeting moments of reflection

Fleeting moments of reflection

15 October 2023 Ausemade

Author Dorothy L â—¦

Sometimes life is just about those moments of reflection…

Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida), Alice Springs Sewage Ponds © Dorothy Latimer
Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida), Alice Springs Sewage Ponds © Dorothy Latimer
Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida), Alice Springs Sewage Ponds © Dorothy Latimer
Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida), Alice Springs Sewage Ponds © Dorothy Latimer
Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida), Alice Springs Sewage Ponds © Dorothy Latimer
Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida), Alice Springs Sewage Ponds © Dorothy Latimer
Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida), Alice Springs Sewage Ponds © Dorothy Latimer

Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida) at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds
Photographs © Dorothy Latimer

Check out more blogs and contribution by Dorothy Latimer.

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