Skimmer Swarm

In my continuing endeavors to avoid showing everyone pictures of desert birds, you will instead be forced to look at this ball (deathball) of Black Skimmers at Crown Point, in San Diego. Here you see some unsuspecting sap about to be engulfed by The Swarm.

After devouring their first victim, the skimmers turn to the suburbs to inflict their wrath on San Diego.

This is the last thing some people ever see. The horror.

While watching skimmer flocks, you will occasionally see some large beaks clashing above the rest of the birds. It reminds me of Narwhal Spar.

Note also that I have unknowingly photographed a Red Knot. Red Knots are neither common nor approachable birds here on the west coast, and I've never intentionally photographed one. How embarrassing.

I bet the bird on the left won.

They are such oddly-shaped birds. I don't even know how they work.

This one is doing some maintenance.

Out with the old, in with the new.

I hope you all enjoyed the local skimmer swarm. May you be blessed by this swarm, or another, in the very near future.