Some Photos from trips during Summer 2021, June 24-July 17

 Some Photos from trips, Vinalhaven to Seal Island
during Summer 2021, June 24-July 17,

Arctic Tern seal Island

Eider hens with duckling

Puffins on the shore of the Eastern bite.

young Great Cormorants in their nests.

Black Guillemots

Puffin over the shore of Murre Cove

Puffins at at Seal Island

Common Murre,   Seal Island

Arctic Tern back shore of Seal Island.

Black guillemot 

Lions Mane, aka Mushroom cloud Medusa

Red-billed Tropicbird at Seal Island with terns.

Adult and young eagle at Otter Island,  the chicks head is just to the right of the adult.

whimbrel, I think, near the landing in the eastern bite.

You can see the shorter tail feather, this bird has often shed one, late in the spring.

puffins and terns over the eastern end of Seal Island, good Puffin nesting area in the large boulders along the shore.

this white cormorant chick was brought to my attention by Louis Bevier, mid July, 

cryptic when on the guano side of its dark siblings.

Seal Island Murre head

I saw another white Great Cormorant chick 1990 with my father at Little Spoon, all feathered out and creamy white,

I did not have a camera that day and did not see the bird again

Seals on the breaker off the western head

Great Cormorant Razorbills and an eider

Shearwater passing, sooty I think,  I did not see many this summer.

there were spells where fishing was not so good this summer, the terns raised very few young and the Puffins did not do very well either.

 Great  White Cormorant chick, 2021