By Vladimir Brezina
On a Florida beach, different species stake out their respective territories with boundaries virtual—
or actual—
Still, invasion often occurs…
(Black skimmers on St. Pete Beach, Florida. Story and more photos here.)
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Boundaries.
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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Wind Against Current 
Nice interpretation. When I first read “beach,”, I thought you were going to show towels laid out. Birds are even better. :-)
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I just didn’t have any beach-towel photos immediately available :-)
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Last year I saw a Black Skimmer on Cape Cod. I had never seen one before, and still haven’t seen dozens… https://trentsworldblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/black-skimmer-001.jpg
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We see an occasional one up here in the NYC area, too—but to see dozens you may have to go south. Certainly in Florida they are not rare, and some beaches, like this one, have large concentrations of them.
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It’s so satisfying to see a beach that is dedicated to its wildlife.
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Well, they are hanging on. Much like the turtles laying eggs, they stubbornly insist on going back to their patch of beach, having no real alternative…
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I thought the same as Judy–beach towels. You are way too creative! this is great. :)
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I work with the material I have… ;-)
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What a great post. I’ve never seen skimmers. Now I want to go visit them (without invasion!)
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They are spectacular when skimming along the water’s edge :-)
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Lovely choices! The skimmers are so fun to watch.
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They are, especially when skimming. A little hard to capture in a still photo, though…
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I love those birds so much! Have you ever seen them in your kayak excursions around the city? I’ve seen them a few times off Staten Island beaches, skimming the shallows.
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Same here—we see one now and again. We saw one in Brooklyn, in Coney Island Creek, just a week ago. But they like to skim the edge of the water along sandy beaches, where we don’t find ourselves all that often…
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Fantastic! I’d love to go there for the birding first and sunbathing second! :)
Did you see chicks…of the Skimmer kind? I’d be willing to bet you saw the other kind quite a bit. :) (wink)
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I was there strictly for the skimmer kind, of course ;-)
Yes, there were plenty of skimmer chicks (and somewhat older juveniles too)—if you look closely you can see some of them in the photos in this post. Here, for example:
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