Tag: Black Skimmer

  • The Black Skimmer

    The Black Skimmer

    by M. Kathy Raines A slowly curving line, like the groove of an ice skate, invisibly traced the nighttime resaca. A glance upwards revealed the artist—a strange night bird, its massive lower beak slicing through surface waters.  This handsome, distinguished fellow was a black skimmer, the only skimmer in our hemisphere and one of three…