{"id":7419,"date":"2018-08-05T08:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=7419"},"modified":"2018-08-05T08:09:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:09:57","slug":"in-search-of-a-booby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/05\/in-search-of-a-booby\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of a Booby"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Steve Sinclair and I drove out to South Padre Island in search of a Masked Booby that had been reported hanging out around the ship channel jetties.\u00a0 After a\u00a0short walk of maybe 150 feet, we almost stumbled over our seabird as he waited along the walking path for a fresh-fish handout from passing fishermen.\u00a0 We seldom enjoy\u00a0that kind of\u00a0“instant” success when searching for unusual birds, but the booby was right there and waiting to be photographed.<\/p>\n

Although in the middle of a molt, our bird was a good find.\u00a0\u00a0It sort of blended in with the laughing gulls, so\u00a0none of the fishermen had the slightest idea they were in the presence of an unusual\u00a0 bird.\u00a0 Normally, one would have to go to a more tropical ocean habitat like the south Atlantic or Caribbean Ocean to find this guy.<\/p>\n

So, here\u00a0are some South Padre critters: Masked Booby, a green sea turtle\u00a0and a marine creature called a Sea Hare.\u00a0\u00a0It surfaced\u00a0while I photographed\u00a0turtles\u00a0near the jetty.<\/p>\n

When you click on a photo, it will enlarge and sharpen for better viewing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Masked Booby on jetty at South Padre Island, 8.3.208<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sea Hare feeding on algae in the Brownsville Ship Channel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Green Sea Turtle surfacing for air.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These images were made with the Canon 7D Mark II camera and Canon 100-400 mm lens, handheld.\u00a0 It was so hot and steamy on this day, I decided to wait for\u00a0cooler weather\u00a0before\u00a0returning\u00a0for better\u00a0photos.<\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Steve Sinclair and I drove out to South Padre Island in search of a Masked Booby that had been reported hanging out around the ship channel jetties.\u00a0 After a\u00a0short walk of maybe 150 feet, we almost stumbled over our seabird as he waited along the walking path for a fresh-fish handout from passing … Continue reading In Search of a Booby<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7426,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions\/7426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}