Kauai Bird Lover post…
We’ve gone to Sealodge every year for the past 8 years. We always visit the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (the lighthouse) because we love seeing the baby shearwaters emerging from their nests in the ground (in October). In 2008, for the first time, we saw dead fish on the lawn at the lighthouse. When I asked the docent why they were there, she told me that the frigatebirds had been stealing fish from the red-footed boobies. The boobies find their food in the ocean and the frigatebirds (also called pirates) take it away from them as they bring it back to their nests in the refuge. In the struggle, some of the fish had dropped to the ground and both birds were too shy to retrieve it from such a public place. There are so many things going on in the refuge that we never see; it was wonderful to get a glimpse of something a little extraordinary.
Bird lover
Date: January 6, 2009