The big question is whether these two photos are of the same Brown Booby. They are both immature birds and they
were photographed 5 days apart. I checked on August 21 for the bird on Onota Lake in Pittsfield, MA, several times
driving all around and couldn't find it. I haven't seen a post for it on eBird after the evening of the 20th, which is
when I photographed it. That a similar bird landed on the mast of Tom Whitney's sailboat on Long Lake in
Hamilton County, NY on the 25th is amazing!
Ardith Bondi