August 23, '23-

 August 23 2023-  Trips to Seal Island

Battling sap suckers,  not fighting over the birch Tree there is a mountain ash next to the Birch that was the issue,  there were sapsuka's on the mountain ash all fall, and many battles for it, how long any individual bird stayed I don't know.

through the islands towards Isle au Haut.

Gumpin' it

Eagle nest, Heron Neck

Harlequins 

Hummer

Matinicus Rock

Skua on the moorning, note Kingfisher on the mast, common terns and Fish Hawks also used the mast as a roost during the summer.

KingFisher

Harlequins,  molting males

two great and one double-crested Cormorants, Seal Island

Cormorants on the backside of Seal Island

Harlequins and Saddleback.

we had a wave of Hermit thrushes passing greens this fall, they stripped this Mountain ash in a few days

Robin on Mountain ash.

august 11-22 '23 birds Vinalhaven to Seal Island

Some photos taken between Vinalhaven and Seal Island, August 11-22, '23

Surf Scooter and Eider

Harlequin 

Peregrine with Guillemot

young Eagle

 Great and double-crested cormorant and eiders

young eagle Otter Island

Star Fisher,  Seal Island

Peregrine on the back side of Seal Island

gulls splitting fish

dark male Harlequin, rare plumage to see in Maine, they usually molt in the north

July 18th-Aug 6

 July 18th 2023-  Aug 6th,

(captions added Dec 11.)

double-crested Cormorant

the Skua,  on the mooring, Vinalhaven beyond, note Terns roosting,

Bonapartes gull Aug 2,

July 31st,  last years puffin 

adult bald eagle,   American fish eagle,

grey seals, mostly

Cory's shearwater

July 25,  harlequin 

Gannet,  there were fewer gannets in the bay during the late summer than there have been in other recent years,  

July 22,  Sunk heads,  Surf Scoters,  there were some scoters around during the summer, not ordinarily so,  maybe fires in Quebec smoked  them off.

Seal Island, 

Seal park,  Squeeker guzzle,  Grey Seals, gathered to be together

Great Cormorants,  

Checkerback,  

Arctic tern

Great Cormorant,  Arctic tern,  seal Island

Grey Seals, Seal Island

SW breaker,  grey seals and the Cormorant colony,  July 25

July 23,   Red-necked phalarope,  aka Northern Phalarope,  

Split Second

Polyphemus moth

White-winged scoter,  July 21

black scoter, aka velvet scoter, butter-billed coot.  July 21

Razorbill,  aka tinker, Welkie

Arctic tern

Arctic tern

harlequin,  July 21

Dowitcher,  July 22

 

July 20, 

July 20, harlequins

Wilsons petrel

Great cormorant, and shadow

July 20,   large cormorant chicks,  mostly

July 20,  surf scoter

Su Sc

Spruce trees in fog with eagle