Well, as promised, this morning I walked down the beach to find out where the Black Skimmers are nesting.  Turns out they are behind the Bon Aire motel in St. Pete Beach, just where they were last year.  The nesting area hasn't been cordoned off yet.

Royal Terns in foreground, Black Skimmer nesting area in background...

Black skimmers are comical-looking birds, with long lop-sided bills, long ungainly-looking bodies and short little legs.  You can barely see their eyes, in the dark part of their head.

But if you look at a Skimmer in flight, you can see that the body is not really that long--it is only the very long wings that make it look that way...

These two Skimmers are evaluating the nesting possibilities of this particular area...

A Black Skimmer with some Willets