Date: 8/30/26 9:46 am From: Ronda Stark via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Nazca Booby
Hi Odette,
Thank you so much for sharing your trip report. For those of us who can
become seasick, can you comment on the roughness of the sea?
I know it varies but I was thinking a shorter trip like this might work.
I also wondered if the tour boat stops and rocks while you look for birds
or if the motion is more constant?
Glad you had such a great trip!
Ronda
On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 3:56 PM Odette James via Tweeters <
<tweeters...> wrote:
> I was on the Puget Sound Express Puffin Tour last Tuesday, August 25, and
> the highlight was an immature Nazca Booby. Totally unexpected, and probably
> a life bird for me. I may have seen it on the Galapagos trip I took back in
> 1986, back when it was a Masked Booby, but I seem to have lost my Galapagos
> list - but it's definitely a newbie on my North American life list, now
> it's no longer a Masked Booby.
>
> We went to Smith Island. Lots and lots of Heerman's Gulls and Rhinoceros
> Auklets (still in breeding plumage), and a half dozen gorgeous Tufted
> Puffins (also still in breeding plumage). And quite a few Common Murres,
> and a few Pigeon Guillemots, Red-necked Grebes, and Brandt's Cormorants.
> And lots of Glaucous-winged and Olympic Gulls (nobody paid any attention to
> the gulls). And there was a nice orca on the way back to Edmonds - T137A
> aka Jack, a 24 year old male. The company puts their trip lists on
> Facebook, so if you don't do Facebook (I don't), you won't know what they
> have been seeing, so I figured I'd let the Tweeter folks know.
>
> The weather was perfect and it was a glorious day. Heck, with the Nazca
> Booby, it would have been a glorious day no matter what the weather was
> like!
>
> Cheers
> Odette James, Lakeshore Retirement Community
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