Off-shore birding: It's a masked booby!

Masked Booby

 Jan and I were at South Padre Island last Saturday for a pelagic bird trip.

Then the next two days we birded SPI for a couple of hours and then visited
· Bentsen Rio Grande SP,
· a Parrot roost in Brownsville
· and the Resaca de la Palma SP 
before heading home Monday afternoon.

The Masked Booby and Storm Petrel were from 25 to 60 miles off shore. We were in 2,500-3,000 feet of water, and it was a beautiful deep blue.

Seas were 3 to 5 feet, which made it a challenge to take pictures, but we managed to get a few.

Here is a link. -- David H.

Band-rumped Storm-Petrel