Friday, July 28, 2006

Amazing Frigate Bird Truly Magnificent





Here are a few photos of a pirate bird, no Jack Sparrow, flying over my boat today while touring the Lower Laguna Madre. As I photographed the one getting blacker plumage I exclaimed, this one is going to be a male. The two teenage boys on the boat, looking up at them asked, what do you mean going to be? That was not the right way to put it, was it! We had a good laugh and I corrected that this bird is about to become an adult male. The other an adult female, so they are about four to five years old this summer and are probably siblings. They came so low over the boat looking for food to steal from the Terns and Gulls flying nearby bay shrimpers throwing off by catch. Look them up Magnificent Frigate Bird... Splotches and her baby Heaven came around the boat some but were resting so we left them to their naps.

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