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Posted by Toe on 21:40:00 06/29/12
I wish Larry had posted his photos, but he's slacking! Here are a couple of mine that weren't complety awful. The Masked Booby photos are horrible, but the bird was well over 500 yards away and moving fast to the south, and I was shooting with a 300mm lens on a moving boat with 8-10 foot swells. I'm surprised you can see anything at all!
Shortly after seeing this bird, we proceeded to deep water and Larry spotted a "white bird" to the souhwest of us flying high and steady towards the southeast. We proceeded to give chase, but at 22+ kts we could just barely keep up. After about 2-3 miles of this, I decided we weren't going to catch it and broke off the chase. We don't know what it was, but I will say the last two Tropicbirds we had behaved just like this, exept those decided to land on the water allowing us to catch up. When you are out in the deep water off here, a white bird is usually a really good one. Oh well, we'll get em next time.
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