I'm with Clearwater Audubon of Clearwater, FL. Had been planning this trip for our chapter. A 10 day trip from Seattle around the Olympic Peninsula and back. I had been creeping up on my 600 life bird and had gotten to 599 while in Colorado in May 2024. I'd known of the Red-footed Booby due the WA listserv Tweeters and was excited at the thought of the booby being my 600th. We had a cruise scheduled on the 10th of August on the Puget Express out to Friday Harbor and back. Our captain was aware of my possible 600th bird. On our way back into Port Townsend he got as close as he could to the favorite roost of the booby AND there it was at the top of the building. I'd include photos but it won't let me. Thanks for your article.
From my Facebook post: My 600th lifer!!! 😁 Pictured with my dear friends Mad, Eva, Steve, Gene & Shep. The celebratory day, 10th of August 2024 of my 600th US life bird in Port Townsend, WA, the 600th bird is pictured. Which is a Red-footed Booby from the Galápagos Islands, approximately two-year-old bird. He got off track. 😁 S.D. Goebel, FL
Hi Dale, what a great story! I'm so glad you got to meet the booby and for your 600th bird, no less! What a wonderful experience; thank you for sharing it with me. I hope the rest of your trip was great and birdy. Hopefully you got some grouse in the Olympics? Maybe varied thrush? I'm so happy to live in such a cool part of the country, although you have us beat in bird diversity down there. Best wishes to you :-)
Lovely article! I saw this bird on a Facebook PNW birding page and thought I just didn't know all this time that the red-footed booby passed through! Ha! Now I want to see it in person even more thanks to your article. I'm guilty of loving seeing anomalies of the birding world, too. :) it would take me 6 hours to get there but who doesn't love a PT trip, right? Beautiful images. Thanks for a great post!
I'm with Clearwater Audubon of Clearwater, FL. Had been planning this trip for our chapter. A 10 day trip from Seattle around the Olympic Peninsula and back. I had been creeping up on my 600 life bird and had gotten to 599 while in Colorado in May 2024. I'd known of the Red-footed Booby due the WA listserv Tweeters and was excited at the thought of the booby being my 600th. We had a cruise scheduled on the 10th of August on the Puget Express out to Friday Harbor and back. Our captain was aware of my possible 600th bird. On our way back into Port Townsend he got as close as he could to the favorite roost of the booby AND there it was at the top of the building. I'd include photos but it won't let me. Thanks for your article.
From my Facebook post: My 600th lifer!!! 😁 Pictured with my dear friends Mad, Eva, Steve, Gene & Shep. The celebratory day, 10th of August 2024 of my 600th US life bird in Port Townsend, WA, the 600th bird is pictured. Which is a Red-footed Booby from the Galápagos Islands, approximately two-year-old bird. He got off track. 😁 S.D. Goebel, FL
Hi Dale, what a great story! I'm so glad you got to meet the booby and for your 600th bird, no less! What a wonderful experience; thank you for sharing it with me. I hope the rest of your trip was great and birdy. Hopefully you got some grouse in the Olympics? Maybe varied thrush? I'm so happy to live in such a cool part of the country, although you have us beat in bird diversity down there. Best wishes to you :-)
Awesome! I remember seeing the blue-footers in the Galapagos 🪶💙
Lovely article! I saw this bird on a Facebook PNW birding page and thought I just didn't know all this time that the red-footed booby passed through! Ha! Now I want to see it in person even more thanks to your article. I'm guilty of loving seeing anomalies of the birding world, too. :) it would take me 6 hours to get there but who doesn't love a PT trip, right? Beautiful images. Thanks for a great post!
Thanks, Karen. It was fun to meet this cool bird. That's a long trip for you, but to a lovely place! I sure hope for its sake that it'll leave soon.
Thanks so much for reading!
Really great pictures! Seeing this bird out of its element would be so cool !
Thanks, it was!!