Seal Island June 27, Harlequin, Tropicbird, Roseate tern, Ivory Blackback, and so much more

Aaron spotted this Harlequin at Little Roberts,  a different one than that I saw the other day.

Great Cormorants,
two year old Puffin, dark cheek, darker bill.

Ducklings at Seal Island,

Double-crested Cormorant and hen eiders.

el senyor Tropical,

pursued by a tern

maybe soon it will molt that long tail feather.

ArcticTern,  @900 pairs nesting on Seal Island this summer.

watch the road hotdog!

Bathing arctic tern

At times this bird seems vexed if our attention is distracted by some of the other birds out here.

 

Arctic tern

Arctic tern,

 

there are about 500 pairs of puffin nesting on Seal Island

Common tern,

Roseate tern

Still here,

straffed by a tern,

and again,

here comes the Roseate, very few of these out here.

Roseate tern,

Clean white with a dark bill, and a different call,

ringed murre seal island,

elusive and charismatic, the black guillemot,

the way overhyped yet nonetheless cool puffin,

 Saw the first petrel of the year on the way up the bay towards brimstone, saw a jaegar yesterday,

the Ivory Black back at Little Brimstone

 

what a lovely creamy plumage she has

 

eagle!

  

A twelve guyed tower put on Little Roberts' by the fish and wildlife service,

 

 the channel towards the mainland.