aug 4- Sept 3, summer 2022 posted feb 28, 23

 Aug 4 to Sept 3,  summer 2022 posted Feb 28, '23

Grey Seals Squeaker Guzzle, 

True North,

procession of gannets, calm grey day

Star Fisher off  Flat ledges in the Eastern bite

Ruddy Turnstone Aug 5, Seal Island

Adult Peregrine on the back side of Seal Island, seen frequently during August, often roosting on the steep sea side

adult Peregrine, August 5th.

Big feet,  (large footed falcon)

Western breaker Grey Seal gang and cormorant colony, mostly great, bristling with large birds of the year.

Whimbrel,  August 5, Seal Island

SKUA!,   one of the few Felonius Skua, (aka. Arctic Skua; Parasitic Jaeger seen during summer 22, 

Small seal with pollock I think

and now there are geese, there is a resident gang of Geese in the reach, 

Geese are now nesting on many gull and eider nesting islands in the mid coast, where they had been absent.

Common tern, roosting on buoy near Vinalhaven

this years puffin likely raised on Seal Island,  August 12, 

two Red (aka Grey) Phalarope and 5 Red-necked (aka northern or needle-billed) Phalarope,  Aug 12

Two Red Phalarope 4 Red-necked Phalarope

Aug 12, 

Another fledgling Puffin,  August 12

August 12, Harlequin at Brimstone,  (hauled out its head is above the rock line just a meter for the water.

not on the way to Seal Island, this is from my bird bath collection

Adult Gannet, surfing,  Aug 13

calm summer sunday

Star Fisher

Laughing Gull of the year, Aug 27

Aug 27,  Puffin loaded with wee fishes, 

Guardians of the young great Cormorants, Coco and Elaine, on Island in part to keep Eagles off during long late chick stage for the Great Cormorants, this the last viable colony of this species in the Gulf of Maine

Island Girl III,  

This years Bonapartes Gull. they bred on fresh water and show up in the bay late summer, September 4

Kestrel,  Green's Island

Merlin take off Green's 

Tracy and Coco, two ocean migrant seabird researches and Bakers, below twin towers on Matinicus rock