September 2020

 Some photos from September 2020, boat rides

Western wall of Seal Island house getting updated.

Money love and Dreams, abeam of Diamond rock, VH turbines and Mt Maguntikuk beyond

a greater shearwater looking sort a sooty against the light

Katrina Paige

Katrina Paige

sooty Shearwater, an excellent late summer for shearwaters, they were scattered about the bay reminiscent of the golden barefoot summers of my youth

Crow searching behind radar for candy bars while gull keeps watch.

adult Bald Eagle,  feathered flesh eating lizard

Gannet, feathered fish eating lizard

first year bald eagle, extra large, raised on otter Island, fattened on ducklings.

September 6, we came upon some gulls and shearwater on some fish

Also some Porpoise

I shut off the engine and we drifted a while

you could see the ball of fish sometimes, here a greater shearwater takes a dive.

here surfacing with fish other shearwater submerged beyond

  

Greater Shearwater, with fish pursued by first year herring gulls.

Immature blackjacked gull with greater shearwater, porpoise under.

the water was still and the porpoise showed up well through it.

Sooty shearwater

sooty shearwater with gulls, and a gannet

Greater shearwater, submerged

Porpoise in green water

 

Greater shearwater, with fish

porpoise,

Harbor Porpoise, September 6, north of three fathom ledge

Harbor Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena

young and adult double-crested cormorant, young great cormorants and a young herring gull.

September 12 Seal Island

Little Spoon, Great Spoon, from the Eastern Ear

Sailing through hurricane sound towards the reach

Star Fisher, Steve and Kachina, off the eastern NE point of Seal Island

Cormorants roosting on the back shore of Seal Island.

mostly great Cormorants Seal Island

Cheryl Ann in the Harbor

Eagle obove seals hauled out on Wooden Ball

The Black Horse

The Flying Fish at Brimstone.

I took a ride inland to Katahdin with my daughter Flora, I got above tree line briefly during a couple of days, pipets robin and a lapland longspur on the tablelands.

Skua, on the mooring Vinalhaven beyond