Thanks for sending this along Charlie. Just to follow up on our sighting, the brown booby was seen at N 40 30.076 and W 72 59.692. It flew by the boat and was heading SE (maybe towards Montauk...)
Best, Matt Fuirst On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Charles Witek <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday afternoon, around 4:00 pm, 15.9 miles, 308 degrees from Fire > Island Inlet. > > Just finishing up a day chumming for sharks with a Stony Brook U research > team when the bird did a fly-by over the chum slick. > > I was originally unsure about the ID, but one of the others on board was a > grad student who specializes in marine birds, had prior experience with the > species, and confirmed that it was, in fact, a brown booby. > -- > *NYSbirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> > ABA <http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> > *Please submit your observations to **eBird* > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>*!* > -- > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
