[obol] WA state RBA: Blue Footed Booby

[David C. Bailey]

 From the Washington birding list Tweeters:

> *Subject: Blue-footed Booby on Samish Island - August 6, 2006*
> From: "Ryan Merrill" <rmerrill27 AT gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 22:50:08 -0700
>
> This afternoon on Samish Island in Skagit County
>I watched a BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY flying in circles with a few hundred gulls for
>about 40 minutes near the park on Wharf Road.  About 3:40 it flew
>south/southwest over Padilla Bay toward March
>Point before I lost it in the haze.  The gull flock it was with appeared to
>have relocated in that direction and was flocking between Guemes and
>Saddlebag Islands.  I would guess that the booby joined the gulls there
>again and could certainly remain with that flock.  Hopefully it can be
>relocated in the upcoming days.  The one previous Washington record was near
>Everett in September 1935.
>
>The few pictures I got are online.  There is a red mark on the belly that
>I'm not sure what to make of.  It appears that it could be red paint.
>
>http://www2.bc.edu/~merrillr/BFBO/bfbo.htm
>
>Earlier in the day I flushed an adult Black-crowned Night-Heron at the
>Skagit Game Range and saw a Semipalmated Sandpiper from Channel Drive.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Ryan Merrill
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