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