A REAL TERN UP FOR THE BOOKS

THUNDEROUS skies are pulsing with the lightning white flashes of “sea swallow” wings.

- Stuart Winter

A spring storm has brought down a squadron of migrating Arctic terns to the frothing waters of a yachting lake.

Aerodynamic forms twirl and whirl, picking insects off the choppy surface with angelic daintiness. The sustenance will fuel their journeys north to the Land of the Midnight Sun.

Recently arrived common terns, readying to nest around the lake, share the airspace, adding angular, abstract shapes in shades of white to contrast with leaden skies.