Friday, November 18, 2011

Oops...one more skimmer!

Or actually the same one as in the prior post, but in slow-motion. I thought I'd looked EVERYWHERE for this last night - forgot sometimes I put shorter videos on Flickr.



Actually found it because a friend sent me looking for my story about a paddle so quiet, I could hear the skimmers' beaks slicing through the water.

6 comments:

doryman said...

Wind surfing

bonnie said...

So do windsurfers come back as skimmers?

Or do skimmers come back as windsurfers?

will said...

where'd you film this? i saw them in the middle east . . .

bonnie said...

Just west of the Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge (aka Marine Park Bridge). They are a reasonably common summer resident in Jamaica Bay - not quite like seagulls & cormorants, though. I remember being fascinated by the idea of a bird that fished this way when I was a kid (there are skimmers out west but they begin appearing in the very southernmost end of CA, not in Vallejo or Bremerton & certainly not in Hawaii). I was SO thrilled the first time I saw one of these fishing.

I even saw one fishing in the embayment behind the ferry terminals at Governor's Island - that was a surprise, I'd never seen one in the upper harbor.

Pandabonium said...

Beautiful to watch. Neat trick birdie.

O Docker said...

It is a neat trick.

When I was eight years old, I tried this once in Atlantic City.

It's a lot harder than it looks.