[Birdnet] possible POMARINE JAEGER at FBWMA

[Tim Avery]

Thanks to Colby for posting my reports this morning.  After getting Steve's
phone call last night (and slightly miffed that my foray to the bay earlier in
the day had been unsuccessful) I opted to take what was planned to be a quick
trip up to Farmington this morning to take a look around.

I arrived just after 10:00am and scanned to the south from the east-west road to
Egg Island, but the convection made that miserable.  I decided to head to the
2nd bridge to the south on the main north-south route (west dike) and look
east, despite the bad lighting.  I go tout with my binoculars and started
scanning directly out, and after going about 50 feet came across an immature
jaeger on the water.  I grabbed my scope and set it up to watch, and take a
quick digiscope.

Not to bore you here with details, the bird was observed for the next 6 hours,
till just before 4:30pm by: Kris Purdy, Colby Neuman, Steve and Cindy
Sommerfeld, Glenn Barlow, Larene Wyss, Steve Carr, Brian Shirley, Jack Binch,
Bob Huntington, Pat Jividen (and his wife), and a couple of passerby's who were
curiosu to what we were looking at.  The general census was that the bird was a
Pomarine Jaeger, but one individual, who is a very ardent observer, thought
several key marks were  a bit off and suggested that my initial ID of Parasitic
was correct.

I have created a little page with numerous shots of the bird, and my description
that can be seen here:

http://timaverybirding.com/jaeger07/jaeger.html

I posed several questions to the ID frontiers list, hoping to help glean out
some information as well.  If you have any questions, let me know.  The bird
was not seen after 4:30pm, and on several occasions we thought the bird was
leaving the bay as it flew far to the east (over the mountains), and quite a
ways to the south as well.

Cheers

Tim
Salt Lake City, UT
tanager at timaverybirding.com
http://www.timaverybirding.com
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