Black Skimmers at Sunset
Posted by texxs in Birds, Featured on Dec 9, 2011
These black skimmers were swarming and swirling about the shoreline at Ft Desoto beach on one fine evening. Normally you might see them in groups of a dozen or too, but this groups at Ft Desoto was so massive this photo only caught about 1/3rd of them.
Black skimmers are truly a unique looking bird. The have a special beak that allows them to feed by flying quickly along the surface of the water latching onto any small fish they encounter. Doesn’t seem like a very efficient method to me, but it sure seems to work for them.
