04/09/2023 Hunmanby, North Yorkshire

Brown Booby: After narrowly missing out on the Scilly brown booby I was thrilled to grip it back only a few days later and much closer too!

The bird was picked up during a sea watch over the weekend and in the morning it was seen roosting on Filey Brigg itself before foraging in the bay between Filey and Bempton.

I was working in Middlesbrough and drove down after the bird survey. I joined the swelling crowd's in the early evening on the cliffs at Hunmanby and watch it for a few hours following the gannets and joining feeding frenzies. 

These wide ranging birds are pretty new to the British list and are now becoming an annual they  breeds on islands of the Caribbean, Cape Verde and and as far away as Ascension, St. Helena, and both offshore and coastal Brazil. 

This bird now puts me on #430 for my UK life list.