More June 2024, and July 3

June 19

June 21,  this was the earliest that I have seen a Razorbill with a chick in the bay.

common Tern on the mast of Skua

June 28, great Cormorants with chicks

Geese and goslings Grteen's

Arctic Terns south side of Seal Island.

July 2,   Great Cormorants 

July 2

Wilsons petrels July 3

Wilson's petrels July 3

Razorbill and chick,  July 3

July 3,   2 Harlequin,  

 July 3d eagles

June 2024,

June 6,  Skua on the mooring, note tern on Mast and radar,  Vinalhaven beyond

Rose Punkett,  Green's Island

Plunkett crossing the Bay

June 13,  Harlequin

June 13,  two eagle chicks

Sooty shearwater, June 16

Geese with goslings,  Woodenball

Eastern Cowpen,  had a corona of debris,  washed off by last winter's storms, washed it back up towards Stonington where it came from.

Swans Island

Southern Mark, June 18

June 19,   eiders, Seal Island

Harlequin Brimstone,  June 19
 

May 24 some photos from boat rides

Black scoters,  May 4

Harlequins,  May 4,  Seal Island

Surf Scoters,  May 12

Eiders on Wooden Ball

Paula Warbler

Red-necked Phalarope,  May 24

Eagle on nest

June 1st,  Sooty Shearwater

Murre, and razorbill Matinicus Rock

Sooty shearwater,  June 1st
 

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.