Find Waldo (Brown Booby)

[Dinusaur]

Well, a dashing tropical seabird showed up in Lake Ontario and hanging out with a group of Cormorants on Wave Tower, a kilometer off of Van Wagner's beach in Hamilton. This is the second time one is seen in Ontario - so naturally it picked my interest. Adding a 2x converter to my 500mm giving me an equivalent of 1000mm of focal length I set out on Thursday afternoon to get a record shot. The first photo is straight out of camera; see if you can spot the Booby. Tough isn't it? So I cropped it, passed it through Gigapixel and came up with the photo in 2. The other two produced the same way. It looked great through the scope; but even 1000mm focal length on a Nikon D5, was not much of any good compared to a bridge camera that has longer reach. Anyway, the last photo was my first sighting of a Brown Booby in Aruba in 2013.

1. Straight out of camera. The booby is on the top hand-rail right of the AC unit. Second photo shows it better after cropping.


2. The same photo after cropping and gigapixeling.


3 & 4: Two other view points.



5. My first sighting of a Brown Booby in Aruba in 2013.

[Ally]

Very nice indeed. Like those paintings.

[Howieh]

Cool shot! Is that one of the birds that follows cruise ships looking for other creatures in their wake? I have lots of shots taken with my SX50, frigate birds, I think?

[Dinusaur]

Cool shot! Is that one of the birds that follows cruise ships looking for other creatures in their wake? I have lots of shots taken with my SX50, frigate birds, I think?

Probably they do Howieh, they are seabirds after all. Frigatebird looks a bit different with their hooked bill. Brown Booby looks more like a Northern Gannet. By the way, there's a report of a Frigatebird today near Peterborough; probably the same bird seen off and on along Lake Ontario shoreline earlier in the month.