Brown Booby Baby!

Howdee all,

Yeah..we saw it!

Corporation Beach~Dennis, Ma.

We missed this bird a few days ago…timing just wasn’t right.

Tonight around seven~ on our way back to Chatham from a long day out with Jeff's 91 year old mother..

I went on my itouch…

A facebook friend,Dan Furbish, had posted on my wall fifteen minutes earlier that the Brown Booby was being seen at Corporation Beach and to get my butt over there…

This is what he wrote

Dan Furbish

Dawn, I just got a phone call. The Brown Booby is being seen right NOW on Corporation beach in Dennis, MA. GO u will still have light !!

We were cutting it close~it was around seven..we were at least fifteen minutes away…The sun would be setting in a half hour….We had a quart of Ice-cream in the car…which we promptly put into a cooler and put things in high gear, hoping to make it there before it got dark or the bird flew.

  We made it to the beach just as the sun was setting, I dashed out of the car and ran to where I saw birders…

YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE….

My photo of the Brown Booby..right side of rock..

not so good…

Immature Brown Booby

Luckily Alex Burdo was there..

He digiscoped a few for me..

Thanks Alex!

Alex is a truly amazing 15 year old birder…

I will never be in his league..

but that’s ok..

If you have never seen his blog..

check it out!

Flight of the Scrub Jay

We didn’t have our scope with us…

Alex let us look thru his scope for some nice views of the bird.

It was Soooo  very exciting..to see this bird and also to meet Alex Burdo and Kathy Doyon the only other birders checking out this rare Brown Booby..

It was getting dark and time to leave..

Jeff's mom, was a trooper, She had to climb up and down this area to see the bird..

Here she is climbing back up…Not bad for a 91 year old…

Special thanks to Dan Furbish for letting me know about the Brown Booby!

Read Alex Burdo’s post of the Brown Booby