Fort Island Gulf Beach and Black Skimmers

Howdee all,

Jeff and I went to Fort Island Gulf Beach to do some birding. This is one of the birding spots on The Great Florida Birding Trail~ 

White powdery sand...Sooooo soft I almost put down a towel to sunbathe….but we had other business here..

We went to the rock jetty~see it down there?

A nice assortment of birds.Terns,Corms, Turnstones

I looked back at the beach..

It was aflutter with birds..

Black Skimmers..

Whenever someone walked by, the Skimmers flew about, then settled down again.

Kids chased them…

It seemed like the skimmers were used to being disturbed..…they would fly away and settle onto a different area of the beach.

The skimmers didn’t seem to disturb the sun bathers  while moving to their next site…

Oh..remember my last post? ~Way to many GBH photos.

Well~this post will be different..

This will be..

Way to many Black Skimmer photos..

And an occasional gull..

Or three..

See the skimmers down there?

Those skimmer birds tried to get themselves into rows....not perfect rows..

I think they may need to work on the row thing..

Now check out that beak..or is it bill?

or

What is that anyway?

They all had them…

Funky Orange and black projections..

Big honkers.

and

No eyes..

Yep..blind birds with wonky honkers…ok I am just kidding.

I know that those are not noses. ;)

There were a few gulls mixed in..

But mostly the gulls had their section and the skimmers had theirs..

Until someone walked by..

Then…

The skimmers flew..

The did pretty good for being blind birds…

The gulls stayed..

The cool gulls were wondering why the silly skimmers were so skittish..

Silly skittish skimmers~silly skittish skimmers..

They just stared at them in disbelief..

This one skimmer stayed while the other silly skittish skimmers flew..

I think it was old..or hurt..or both.

A friend comes back to join him..

While the other silly skittish skimmers settle down again.

Well..

until the next time someone walks by..

Silly Skittish Skimmers..

Stay tuned~~~~~next time

for the way to many ____?___ photos.