Red-footed Booby Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Scilly (1 Viewer)

[Farnboro John]

My take on this, from Sunday. Maz and I got absolutely fried in the sun, on a near-flat Atlantic with masses of seabirds. I've included some of the other highlights in this thread.

Many thanks to the crew of the Seahorse whose boat handling was top-notch around the Bishop Rock, keeping us in the best spots for light and viewing angle then found us rafts of Cory's Shears on the way back.

John

Red-footed Booby

Seahorse birders at Bishop Rock

Red-footed Booby X 2

Canon high-angle battery on Kingfisher

Red-footed Booby X 2

Sunfish

 

[Farnboro John]

And the journey back, both on Seahorse and Scillonian III:

John

Cory's Shearwater X 5

Great Shearwater

Common Dolphin

Manx Shearwater

 

[Steve Lister]

There is another thread on here about what looks like another immature Red-footed Booby photographed at sea somewhere between Maderira and the Azores, I think yesterday. Apparently now on eBird.

 

[Original PaulE]

Lovely pics of the Shearwaters!!

 

[NSH]

Great pics John, Seahorse definitely gave us a brilliant trip with the Cory's raft after we left the lighthouse.
Neil