About the Image(s)

This image was crated a couple of years ago at Lido Beach in Lido Key near Sarasota. There was a colony of hundred of skimmers, and this was during hatching season, where there were a large quantity of recently hatched chicks and protected by their parents from the predators mainly the seagulls, and royal terns that also hang out in the area . The skimmers do their nests on the sand just by digging slightly, enough to lay the eggs and cover them (Original 1). In the image, the chick looks oversized because it was in front of the feeding parent and closer to the lens.
Used a Nikon Z9 with the Nikkor lens 800 mm f/5.6 + 1.25x TC for a total of 1000 mm and these settings: ISO 640, f/7.1 and 1/4000 sec. The image was PP in LightRoom and cropped.