More on the Brown Booby report from Boulder County
Peter Gent
From: Peter Bandurian
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 4:28 PM
To: Steve Jones
Subject: Potential sighting of a Brown Bobby
Steve:
On a bike ride up Left Hand Canyon last Wednesday, 22 June just before noon, while passing through the hamlet of Rowena I spied a very unusual looking bird. I stopped to try to identify it, took pictures, and continued up the canyon not wanting to distress it any further. It was unable to fly more than a few feet. It did not appear to me to have any obvious injuries. On the way back down the canyon I could not spot the bird. In hiding? Recovered and flown off? A meal? That evening I could not positively ID the bird in my guidebooks. Yesterday, Saturday, while riding again, I stopped by Wild Bird Center. Wendy was kind enough to identify the bird as probably an immature brown booby. A rarity. She suggested that there would be some interest in a report of it. Attached or below or both or not at all depending on how your and my email clients and servers cooperate is the best, but not very good, image I got.
Wendy suggested that I submit this "report" to cobirds.org but the website will not accept pics. Nor can I figure out how to submit it with pic to nature-net. And, no one would believe me without a pic! Please forward this to them if you think it appropriate. Thanks.
Cheers, Peter Bandurian
