A Stow-Away on Board...

At the jetty early one morning, I noticed a shrimp boat on the channel.  As often as I go there, I tend to 'know the ships'  but...this one I hadn't seen before. It was large, and colorful, and I wanted to find out what the owner named it. The name was Morning Lord. Huh? Just what does that mean? That they get up before daybreak, and out to sea...being the 'lord' of the morning...or a greeting out at sea...like... G'day Lord? Who knows? Actually, you probably don't even care! But I took a photo of it...mainly 'cause it's RED. When I got home, I got the photo...took it off the camera card, and noticed something there that I didn't see when at the jetty!!! I then cropped it to enlarge the bird! See it? [notice the arrows I added]....way too large for a seagull or a pelican. If I would've paid more attention and actually saw it, I'd taken more photos; I've only seen them in the wild a couple of times before this; flying, in search of its meal, over water...

This particular bird is a SEA bird....meaning, it rarely is found on land!! Always on the water...fishing for food, or, I've even read before they can be 'pirate birds' meaning the steal from other birds. 

Except when breeding....they are then found far out on the oceans/gulf, on islands.

The "stow-away" has a species name of... Magnificent Frigatebird - and very rare to sight them so near my area of Texas!!  This one I spotted by accident, is probably a female or a juvenile....the male of the species has the bright red throat that is displayed during courtship.