Brown Booby

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

A lifer for me, and a dream come true.
An immature Brown Booby Sula leucogaster. This bird is an occasional non-breeding visitor that has been recorded only from a couple of locations on the west coast of India. Photographed this bird recently during a dolphin survey off Malvan, Maharshtra. We were about 2 km from shore at this point.
This is far from an everyday sighting, and what made it much more special was that the bird stayed put and offered a huge number of shots.

Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 70-300mm IS USM (borrowed)
SS 1/800
Av 7.1
ISO 100
Very slight crop (about 5%) from below.
Shot hand held from a moving boat.