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Black Skimmers West Haven, CT
I apologize to those of you that have seen this image on "the other site" or Photomigrations in the last couple of days, but I really wanted to share it with all of you. I have been bouncing all over the net since "the incident" and was giddy to hear about the new site via Artie's email this AM, so here I am! It's great to see all of your images again! I shot these two guys two days ago on a local beach. Black skimmers are somewhat of a novelty in CT, but this year at least four pairs have nested with our local tern colony (much to the terns' dismay). I've been shooting them all season, but yesterday chose to concentrate on flight shots. As Jim Zipp depicted in a post of the same colony a few weeks ago, they exhibit a behavior where two birds fly up very high in a ragtag spiral and proceed to fight. Afterword, they dive bomb down in an erratic pattern. These birds were just coming out of a dive and weren't too happy with each other. I hope that you like this one! Matthew P.S. I hope the title doesn't sound pretentious... I'm joking of course. [b] [color=GREEN][u]MATTHEW K.WHITLEY[/u][/color]
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