{"id":6095,"date":"2012-09-11T07:11:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T13:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:20:49","slug":"resting-black-skimmer-juvenile-my-banner-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/09\/11\/resting-black-skimmer-juvenile-my-banner-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Resting Black Skimmer Juvenile – My Banner Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RelaxedResting Black Skimmer juvenile – Nikon D200, handheld, f7.1, 1\/640, ISO 160, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 330mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Several people have remarked on how much they like the resting Black Skimmer juvenile image that is<\/del> was<\/em> in my rotating banner at the top of this blog so I thought I would post it to show the whole bird.<\/p>\n

Composition is always a challenge when photographing skimmers because their bodies are so long so I went with a pano crop for this one.<\/p>\n

I saw this resting juvenile at Fort De Soto’s north beach and laid down in the sand quite a way from it then slowly sand crawled forward so I wouldn’t disturb the youngster or upset its parents.<\/p>\n

When I say slowly I mean about 10 – 15 minutes of inching forward as low to the sand as I could get. I try to never get so close that I bother the birds, especially with chicks.<\/p>\n

When I finished photographing the chick I did a backwards sand crawl and left them in peace.<\/p>\n

The immature Black Skimmer<\/span><\/a> seemed so comfortable with my low profile that it fell asleep and only got up when the adults came in to feed it.<\/p>\n

I felt very privileged to photograph this bird. I am not sure my images do its beauty justice.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Black Skimmer photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several people have remarked on how much they like the resting Black Skimmer juvenile image that was in my rotating banner at the top of this blog so I thought I would post it to show the whole bird. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,253,25,704,2000,43],"tags":[4039,3990,4134,5229,14752,4077,4067,4071,5119,4156,4211,4017,4697,5117,2315],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-black-skimmers","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-pinellas-county-florida","category-wildlife-ethics","tag-beach","tag-black-skimmer","tag-chick","tag-coast","tag-coastal-island","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-relaxed","tag-resting","tag-rynchops-niger","tag-sand","tag-skimmer","tag-skimmers","tag-summer-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t