Long-tailed Jaeger 2

(Bird ID is corrected in It is a Parasitic Jaeger on Nov 30, 2007)

We continued our Whooping Crane Tour with Captain Tom on the Skimmer. It was a great tour and we saw over 50 different species of birds.

The tour was almost ready to leave the waters near Aransas NWR, when on an oyster shell shoal, there sits a Long-tailed Jaeger. Is it the same bird that we had seen 2 hours and 15 minutes earlier?

This photo is from the first sighting.

Now, the sky was darker, it was windier, the seas were rougher and some rain was forecasted soon. It was impossible to take pictures in the rough water. So Captain Tom maneuvered the boat to the other side of the shoal where the water was more quiet and I shot images until the Long-tailed Jaeger flew away.

This photo is from the second sighting.

You can see from the markings on the flanks and neck that it is the same Long-tailed Jaeger that we saw earlier.

More pictures in the next blog.