Sunday, August 06, 2006

Tift boats bring in off shore bird






As George and I cruised around to watch the last of the Texas International fishing Tournament boats bring their catch to the docks at South Point we saw a little bird in the water and here are some photos of it. It is an off shore bird that should be out to see so it must have spent a weary day on one of the yachts and then flew off at the dock only to land in the water unable to fly. As soon as I get word on what bird it is I will post the name. I think it is a shearwater. I will certainly be happy for any comments on the bird and its identity.
Also a young dolphin was being pestered by a Ramora yesterday and leaps many times to try to dislodge it. I missed the leaps as I had just left to pick up another group but George saw the huge leaps. I did manage to get photos of the Remora on the dolphin though. George and I figured it had to be a Remora to make this baby jump so high and so many times.

3 Comments:

Dennis Shepler said...

Looks like Audubon's Shearwater.

2:39 PM  
Anonymous said...

Audubon's shearwater certainly appears most likely with the light lores, probably dark undertail coverts and wing attern.

2:55 PM  
Anonymous said...

Looks like an Audubon's Shearwater to me. The extent of dark on the leading edge of the underwing helps rule out Manx. That, long bill, and dark face also rules out Little Shearwater.

2:04 PM  

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