Trainee wings
There are young Arctic Terns here which have yet to get their full adult plumage.
![Arctic Tern - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Arctic-Tern-The-Hall-of-Einar-20-725x484.jpg)
Smart, aren’t they? We’ve walked a mile or so to their colony and are giving it a large detour. We don’t want to be slapped on the head and we don’t want their eggs or chicks to be eaten while they’re distracted by us.
![Arctic Tern - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Arctic-Tern-The-Hall-of-Einar-14-725x363.jpg)
This one in concentrating on something else entirely.
I’m not a fortune-teller, but I can see fish in its near future.