With luck someone will spot this bird flying down Assateague Island or from the OC inlet or my secret wish at Solomons or Pt. Lookout!

 Tyler Bell


California, Maryland


From: Samuel Galick <>
Date: November 1, 2011 12:07:29 PM EDT
To: 
Subject: [NJBIRDS] Final Brown Booby update, Cape May
Reply-To: Samuel Galick <>

The well known female Brown Booby, frequenting Jarvis Sound since August
20th was seen yesterday leaving Cape May.

Please read the following message from Bob Lubberman:

"Osprey Wetlands Cruise AND SHE'S OUTTA HERE! This morning's totally
awesome trip was highlighted by a meeting with a very determined looking
Brown Booby passing us going under the Two Mile Bridge and heading out
towards the inlet and the Ocean. Apparently all the white slippery stuff
associated with this mornings hard frost might have finally turned on a
light bulb in our hopefully former resident booby's head that there are
some differences between Jarvis Sound and The Caribbean Sea. Tell your
friends in the Carolinas because I think she's on her way. She was not seen
in the remainder of that trip or on the afternoon trip.
Sam Galick

Maybe there is a "happy" ending... "happy" being a relative term. Good luck
on it's voyage to the Caribbean! Thanks to Bob, Dave, and Tom for literally
taking boat loads of people to see the Booby this fall. Surely, she'll rank
among famous Cape May birds like the Ivory Gull in '09.

Osprey Wetlands CruiseAssuming she doesn't show again it couldn't be a
cooler ending. She didn't just disappear. We were coming in from the inlet
and she came down past the fishing boats in an area we had never seen her,
went straight under the bridge past the dredge and headed straight out the
inlet. We turned around and went back under the bridge up to the turn
marker and looked in all directions but saw nothing. Ditto for all of her
usual haunts in Jarvis on that trip and the next trip. As Sam said maybe we
do get a happy ending to this bird's visit to Cape May."

Good birding,

Sam

-- 
Sam Galick
Cape May, NJ

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgalick/


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