Black-headed Gull in early July in Little Compton. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Lesser Black-backed Gull in late November in Little Compton by Geoff Dennis.

Black Tern resting on the Sakonnet River. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Black Tern and Common Terns on the Sakonnet River. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Lingering adult Laughing Gull photographed from a boat in the Sakonnet River on December 24, 2011. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Bridled Tern. Found on a Little Compton beach during Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Black Tern on flotsam in the Sakonnet River. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Royal Tern photographed flying over a Little Compton beach after the passage of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Bonaparte's Gull in July in Little Compton. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Black-headed Gull in Little Compton. Photo by Geoff Dennis. Slide scan from July 27, 2003.

Immature Laughing Gull in Little Compton. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Laughing Gull. You should have been there! Photographed in Little Compton by Geoff Dennis.

Caspian Tern. Inset includes a Common Tern with the Caspian Tern. Both images taken in Little Compton. Photos by Geoff Dennis.

Hatch-Year Common Tern in Little Compton. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Adult Common Tern feeding Hatch-Year Common Tern in Little Compton. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Adult and fledgling Least Terns sleeping at sunset. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Forster's Tern in June at Little Compton. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Juvenile Forster's Tern in Little Compton. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

A pair of Common Terns tends to the egg at nest in Little Compton. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

1st-spring Common Tern in June in Little Compton. Photo by Geoff Dennis.

Common Tern, Little Compton. Photo by Geoff Dennis.