Re: [SBB] Brown Booby this morning / Charleston Slough

[Bob Power <[[email protected]]>]

Hi all:  Paul Veers was part of the dawn patrol and
first located the Booby in flight around 7:15.  The
bird was foraging in the manner Dave describes below,
skimmer-esque, quite contrary to the plunge-diving
often associated with gannets and boobies.  The booby
disappeared behind the A10/A11 levee pursued by gulls,
but you could tell it's location as the gulls on the
levee hopped up, one by one as the bird flew by below.
Kind of like "the wave" only different.  Maybe you had
to be there. I'll move on.

Our Palo Alto birding class walked around Charleston
Slough.  243 American White Pelicans were on the ponds
to the north of the slough.  2 VAUX'S  SWIFTS flew
through. An adult GOLDEN EAGLE flew south west over
the parking lot and disappeared over Los Altos.  

Good birding, 
Bob Power
Oakland, CA

> After
> a while the booby flew out over pond A11 to feed by
> skimming like a shearwater then diving horizontally.
> It eventually flew back to the levee and was harder
> to find. Frank Vanslager found a Common Tern on some
> posts barely sticking out of the water about 200
> yards out from the corner of the pond. A Pelagic
> Cormorant was seen on the levee before most other
> birders arrived. 
> 
> Dave Weber,
> Milpitas>
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