Juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger

This juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger was found 2 days ago at Lake Pueblo (Colorado) by Brandon Percival and others who were birding this large lake by boat. Today it made numerous short flights usually several hundred feet or more away; however, scopes provided nice views of the bird in flight and the neat steep and twisting dives it would take to land on top of the water. While floating on top of the water the jaeger engaged in spinning around in circles on a number of occasions. This did not appear to be a type of feeding behavior as it didn't appear to engage in any feeding. The spinning is shown in the digiscoped video clip below. SeEtta