Monday, December 11, 2023

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



Tuesday, August 8, 2023

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