Black Skimmers, as an adaptation to their feeding method, are so out of proportion with the tiny legs, extremely long wings, crazy beak, etc to make images of them in any non-flight position troubling to me. When in flight and while feeding they are graceful and quite unique. To keep from dipping their wings in the water they never drop their wings past a certain point, so there are fewer wing positions to capture. Their wings are so long that the capture of a bird in flight coming toward you (without clipping ) practically needs a panaramic view. This image caught the bird in a diagonal position.
Sony A-700 Tamron 200-500mm @ 400mm, f6.3 1/1250 sec ISO 200 Comments and criticism welcome.~onlybill







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