Adult Black Skimmer flying low and skimming the water at the Nickerson Beach, New York

Photograph captured with a Canon EOS 1DX II camera paired with a Canon 100-400mm IS II lens

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A black tailed skimmer dragonfly seen on one of the fishing platforms beside the River Severn on the Ham at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.

Black Skimmer fly by...

Spain; Murcia, Los Alcazares 15/9/20

Keeled Skimmer (young female)

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Hills of Hays, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas

San Diego, California

Side by side Black Skimmers flying by!

(Rynchops niger)

Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge New Jersey.

After this little Black Skimmer chick finished downing this long Needle Fish, which was an amazing feat in itself, I don't think it needed to be fed for quite a while! The fish was much longer than the chick.

A Fulvous Forest Skimmer (Neurothemis Fulvia) perched on a young Drumstick Tree (Moringa Oleifera).

A flame skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

Black Skimmer in first light...

France; Vienne 7/6/18.

Wrightsville Beach

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Fortunate that it was mostly in the coronal plane.

Libellula incesta, the slaty skimmer, is a dragonfly of the skimmer family, native to eastern United States and southern Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick. Fairfield Harbour, North Carolina

"Stay away from my baby"

8-9-2020

Black Skimmer fishing at E B Forsythe NWR in New Jersey on 6/10/2020.

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After a brief absence, a parent Skimmer returns to its waiting babies.

College Park, MD

Forsythe NWR

Of Florida

Waking up to the morning sun

Spain; Mula, Murcia 1/6/22

Barlekha, Moulvibazar, Bangladesh

A black-tailed skimmer dragonfly seen beside the River Avon on the stretch of river between Tewkesbury and Twyning.

Spain; Mula, Murcia 31/5/22

Re-entering the nesting area.

Long Island, NY

Flame or Neon Skimmer also known as Gwendolyn just to be sure. The second most numerous of dragonflies at the lagoon where I hunt. Any time I want a lot of color in a series - like now - I add a Flame Skimmer.

Keep our ponds and lakes and rivers clear. One dragonfly can eat 100-150 mosquitos and gnats a day. Imagine - if you don't have a calculator - what 10,000 dragonflies can eat!

Pretty soon, this beach should be covered my these little balls of fuzz. Hundreds of adults were still sitting on nest.

There were lots of black skimmers standing around on Cumberland Island, Georgia when we visited last year.

Black Skimmers are always fun to observe and photograph. I feel we should try to experiment with try to create something different from what you have photographed before otherwise things get mundane. The sunrise this particular morning was spectacular and got lucky with a bird and a minnow in it.

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Spent some time with the skimmers early morning

...or perhaps the title should be gastrocolic reflex...lol..

Doing his thing...

Caught in low light and light rain. The DoF is a little shallow, but I like the way the wings turned out.

Fort Saskatchewan Praire. Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.

Long Island, NY

Stone Harbor Point, NJ