Nothing else makes a mess like a seabird in the rigging

By Susan Scott

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 20, 2012

~~<p>For a seabird fan like me, a little splash of guano is no big deal. But last week, during a nighttime voyage from La Paz to Mazatlan, Mexico, a booby and a frigatebird tested my limits.</p>
<p>So cute, I thought, looking up at the rear end of the booby bird that had worked so hard to balance on Honu's spreader (the crossbar on the mast). It's a challenge with webbed feet on a swaying boat, but brown boobies are good at teetering on moving objects. These are the seabirds that often grace the navigation buoys marking Hawaii's channels.</p>
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For a seabird fan like me, a little splash of guano is no big deal. But last week, during a nighttime voyage from La Paz to Mazatlan, Mexico, a booby and a frigatebird tested my limits.

So cute, I thought, looking up at the rear end of the booby bird that had worked so hard to balance on Honu's spreader (the crossbar on the mast). It's a challenge with webbed feet on a swaying boat, but brown boobies are good at teetering on moving objects. These are the seabirds that often grace the navigation buoys marking Hawaii's channels. Login for more...