The Green Cay bird checklist is currently hovering around the 140 species range but every year we manage to add a new bird here or there. Our latest addition to the list will be this lone Black Skimmer that one day decided to check out the mudflats. From 9AM until I left for home at 5PM the Black Skimmer stayed on the mile trail mudflats. Even when Black-necked Stilts and Red-winged Blackbirds came to investigate the bird didn't flinch. It merely turned in circles as if surveying the scenery.
I don't know what possessed the Black Skimmer to visit us at Green Cay but I was very happy to digiscope a few photos and add it to the checklist.
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