[Tweeters] Late to the Pt. Townsend booby viewing - a worthwhile outing.

[Eric Ellingson via Tweeters]

https://flic.kr/p/2qdRgAK

 This link is to a slideshow of photos taken during an hour of observing.

>From perched and preening in well-lit lighting to backlit from the other

side, plunge diving for food, and a close flyby at the end.

It is quite sad that my wife had to pull me away from work to seek out a
life bird only a few hours away.  The Red-footed Booby has been seen in the
Port Townsend area for about a month now.

Knowing we would not be able to get a ticket for a ferry crossing by car we
took eBikes, parked on this side, and biked across.  It did not take but a
few minutes to bike to the Hawaiian Chieftain tall sailing ship where
photos have been taken of it over the last bit.  The ship was just heading
out for a tourist cruise, no booby. We then went to Fort Warden, another
place it had been sighted and photographed. We were glad to have had eBikes
as there were a few steep hills getting there.

There it was, at an even more photogenic spot than the breakwater where I'd
seen other photos taken of it, on a piling, in full sunlight by itself
with Mt Baker in the background.  I spent over an hour taking shots as it
preened, stretched, flew, plunge-dived, and did a nice close fly-by at the
end before heading to the mast beam on the Chieftain back near town.

Eric & Marcia


Eric Ellingson

360-820-6396
esellingson at gmail.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ericellingson/
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