[dropcap]I[/dropcap] feel a little sorry for the brown booby.  In the first place, the name “booby” sounds a little disparaging, as if the bird might not be too bright.

Blue-footed boobies like this pair can occasionally be seen down towards Canyon Lake. (photo courtesy of Jerry Hall)

And that is unfair, since boobies are at least as intelligent as the emu, a very large bird which has a brain that weighs about as much as an AA battery.

But I digress, a brown booby was recently sighted...