[texbirds] Fwd: Brown Booby in Houston/Baytown

From: Steve Gross <sgross77@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: TEXBIRDS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:22:49 -0500
Janet Rathjen tried to post this to TEXBIRDS, but for some reason, it's been 
delayed.

Here's what she sent:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks, Steve for getting the post out right away.  Here are the details:
> 
> This evening, Stephan Lorenz and I were coming south on Crosby-Lynchberg Rd 
> and 
> just missed the ferry at 4:26 pm.  We were the first vehicle in line, so were 
> scanning birds from the truck.  I notice a brown bird appear from my right 
> side 
> flying directly away from us out from the ferry landing.  I followed it 
> assuming 
> 
> it would turn out to be a cormorant.  It finally banked left and I found 
> myself 
> looking not at a cormorant head and bill, but that of a sulid.  In disbelief, 
> I 
> asked Stephan "Is that a sulid?"  He got on it immediately and identified it 
> as 
> an immature Brown Booby.  I quickly lost it behind the structure on the left 
> side of the landing.  He had a few more seconds look and said the bird turned 
> back to the right then zig zagged briefly as if making up its mind before he 
> too 
> 
> lost it behind the structure.  We both looked for it to appear on the left 
> side 
> of the structure, but did not see it reappear.  At this time, we don't know 
> if 
> it went up the ship channel towards Houston, or down the ship channel towards 
> Galveston.  We scoped all the perches we could find from the Monument Inn, 
> the 
> park across the street and the Battleship parking area over the next hour, 
> but 
> could not refind it.
> 
> The bird was brown all over with the classic sulid bill and shape.  Stephan 
> had 
> the presence and experience to look for the lighter brown on the underwings 
> which he saw clearly.  He will have better notes to send to the TBRC.  No 
> pictures were taken as we did not have time to pick up the camera before we 
> lost 
> 
> sight of it.  Time of the sighting was actually 4:28 pm, not the 4:35 pm I 
> put 
> in the TOSRBA text. (phone timestamp corrected the time).
> 
> Janet Rathjen
> Houston, TX
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Steve Gross <sgross77@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "TEXBIRDS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <TEXBIRDS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sat, September 29, 2012 5:00:50 PM
> Subject: [texbirds] Brown Booby in Houston/Baytown
> 
> A TOSRBA post was just sent by Janet Rathjen. She reports an immature Brown 
> Booby at theCrosby-Lynchburg ferry landing on the Houston Ship Channel. Her 
> TOSRBA post said that the bird was seen at 4:35 p.m.
> 
> This is the same location where another Brown Booby (that bird was an adult, 
> if 
> memory serves) was reported several weeks ago.
> 
> Steve Gross
> President, Texas Ornithological Society
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