Fun With Nature

All About Terns: Of the same family as seagulls, terns are extremely selective in their pairings, prompting Charles Darwin to coin the phrase,

“One good tern deserves another.”

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wait-whatKnown for their distinctive sound, “kee-WAH,” terns are particularly fond of eating sand eels, which contain a potent hallucinogen. As a result, entire colonies of terns are often unable to function for hours, resulting in the oft-used phrase, “No tern left unstoned.”

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39 Responses to Fun With Nature

  1. Anthony says:

    The tern have their own version of edibles lol

  2. Gail Perry says:

    Ha ha ha!I needed that!❤️🤣🤣🤣

  3. This post seems to have taken a tern for the worst.

  4. unstoned! that’s how I live now!

  5. Nicely done 🙂

  6. SiriusSea says:

    LOLOL ~ <3 !!!

  7. I love the terns hair style!

  8. Debi Walter says:

    It’s even biblical—“tern the other beak.” 🤪

  9. Ha! Ha! Ha! 😂😂 Thank you for that!

  10. gpavants says:

    Mitch,

    One good turn deserves another? Birds are funny creatures that I am sure makes God laugh. In Christ, Gary

    Gary Avants Forbear Productions * *garyavants66@gmail.com garyavants66@gmail.com

  11. trE says:

    I don’t see any of them “terning the other cheek.” 🤣😆😂

  12. Ana Daksina says:

    So the question is, which is more ~ my desire to get high or my natural antipathy to eating eels (which are basically sea worms)? …

  13. Marsha says:

    hahaha! I bet they don’t tern over any new leaves when they’re unstoned.

  14. Loved it. Made me laugh. One good tern deserves another.

  15. All I can say is: 😂

  16. JMN says:

    “As the World Terns”: a great soap! 🙂

  17. Herb says:

    But did you trade your sea bird for a sausage? I once traded a sausage for a seabird and took a tern for the wurst.

  18. Love it! I needed a laugh today. One good “tern” deserves another!

  19. Maybe that explains why the Beatles’ song “A Day in the Life” has that line, “I’d love to tern you on.”
    I must have been spelling it wrong all these years.

  20. I didn’t know about it so interesting, Mitch! So lovable creatures btw hehe

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  22. Shel Carlene says:

    Just came across your blog and love it! My daughter loves these birds and likes to feed them. They flock around here whenever she comes around with food. <3 It's a beautiful site.

  23. Shel Carlene says:

    sight* lol

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