June 30th-July 15th

Common Tern balancing on mast of Skua, as a wake goes by

July 6th fish hawk nest in the thoroughfare

July 6 loon,  Winter harbor

July 12 Razorbill and chick

 

murre and Puffin

Puffin with Sandlance

Great Cormorant

Great Cormorant on the Three fathom Ledge buoy

Humpback

White top of pectoral fins visible in the water

Wilson's petrel with worn white wing feathers

White winged Wilson's Petrel

Eagle ready to grab

Eagle with pogie

good fishing

and now there are shearwaters

Razorbill, chick and petrel,

Greater, Cory's and Manx shearwaters.

Sooty, Cory's and greater shearwater

petrels, greater shearwater Matinicus rock

White winged scoter by yellow ledge,  July 15th

dark checked second year Puffin,  

Roseate Tern with a banded Arctic tern , Seal Island July 15th

Arctic,  Arctic and roseate Tern

3 arctic and Roseate tern 

Male eiders

Manx Shearwater

the lovely wee Manx,  there were quite a few of them among the loads of Greater shearwaters the last few days

Cory's,  Sooty and Greater shearwater

Sooty, Cory's and greater shearwater

Greater shearwater

a loose raft of mixed shearwater east of Seal Island July 15th

July 15th,  eagle chick

Eagle

photos from June 20-23, 2023

A few pictures from recent trips To Seal Island

June 20 Kittewakes, there was an immature too.

Eiders

June 20th,  Brimstone,  Male Harlequins

Eiders and Harlequin June 20th

Wilsons petrel,  there have been lot's of these.

bioluminescent Ctenophores

there it has turned on its green flash

Great Cormorants Seal Island

Double crested cormorant and red Rock eel,  rock gunnel, 

herring gull with redfish.

Harlequins little brimstone,  June 21

Matinicus Rock June 22,  Kitewakes

Murres and Razorbills Matinicus Rock, 

Murre razorbill Puffin,  Seal Island

Second year Great cormorant

Kittiwake still at seal Island, June 23

Arctic tern 

Grey seals and the cormorant colony 

Razorbill, puffins

humpback in the bay

white pectoral fins I guess is characteristic of Atlantic humpbacks

barnacles on the tip of the Fluke

2 harlequin on little brimstone June 23d

hummer on Green's,  June 25