Black Skimmers at Nickerson Beach

Nickerson Beach was an interesting spot for bird photography. Having  large groups of Black Skimmers, Common Terns and Oystercatchers. I like photographing Black Skimmers, but where I usually find them, the main group might have 50 – 70 birds, here at Nickerson Beach it was probably about 500 or so. They were off to one side of the roped off protected area to the left of the entrance. It was fun to see a group that large all of a sudden take off in such a large group. I only had my 400mm with a 1.4X teleconverter on at the time so I was only getting a small group out of the extremely large group flying by in waves. Next time I will be more prepared and have a wide angle zoom for these type of shots.