Celebrity booby

 juvenile brown booby, a pan tropical sea bird

Since Tuesday, this wayward bird has been perched on a dead tree, making low flying forays over the lake for fish, and then back to his spot. This booby is the first recorded to visit Ohio, and is now residing just south of Akron. Under cloudy conditions, he is very grey; more sunlight the plumage would be brown.

On the birdy internet pages, some of the locational directions were very exact on where to park for a very short walk to view. Birdy in this wind tossed world has found a spot, and he is as regular as Norm (Hilary Norman Peterson) on Cheers.

 Booby is very accommodating to camera folk. Some want a better angle to view from.

 This couple drove six hours from Louisville Kentucky.

"Nimisila Reservoir is one of the 13 bodies of water that make up the Portage Lakes. At 825 acres, it's the largest body of water in the park district. Nimisila Reservoir was the last of the Portage Lakes to be created. The reservoir originally provided the ever-expanding water needs of Akron's industrial complex. Built in 1936 by the federal Works Progress Administration, the reservoir was created when an earthen dam 44 feet high and 2,350 feet long was built on Nimisila Creek. The reservoir has 16 miles of shoreline and four boat launches, with the deepest spot at around about 30 feet."—Summit Metro Parks

_______________________

postscriptum:  4 September 2020. A wing of the bird was found to-day, booby succumbed to predation.