Broad-winged Hawk, Oct 26

 Broad winged hawks breed on Vinalhaven but are  rare on Green's  Island, this was on Green's Oct 26

high tide in the reach Oct. 18

 Turkey buzzard over Green's Oct 30

 GB Heron, November 15

Red-Billed Tropicbird returns to Seal Island, May 7

News from Seal Island, yesterday Keenan reported the return of the Tropicbird, May the 7 is early compared to other years.

 here is an old photo of the famous Tbird.

I dropped the team off on Thursday.
that day we saw, 3 species of Falcon, and scoter and Alcid, four gulls, laughing, black-back, herring and Bonapartes,  Keenan Saw the Ivory Black-back.

Also there was an Adult bald eagle, who flushed the small colony of Great Cormorants during the brief time I was there.

October 4-14 2016, Dove, Surf Scoters, Mackerel, myrtle warbler

 Young Mourning dove on Green's

 Surf Scoters in the reach

 Mackerel off the Quarry, there were Mackerel around until December.

 Strawberry or Ram Island

 Myrtle warbler at the bath,  we have many many myrtle warblers passing by in October.

Sept 13 pick up team on Seal Island

Sept 13, 2016,   posted May 2 '17

 Gimme a Hula, Sheep Island beyond

 heron neck, Mt Maguntikuk beyond

 Stacey and Frank,  Packing up.

 young Yellow-crowned night heron still on the island

 Adult eagle over the western head,

 Cormorant zone abandoned, there were many more cormorants still present near the nest area on this date last year.

There were some cormorants still around the island, here a mix of young great and Double-crested, but they had moved away from the nest area, they are generally reluctant to do so and I suspect there was more disturbance by eagles in '016 than there was last year.

Early September 2016, Posted early May 2017

A few from September 2016, posted May '17

 I just wanted to post a few more from last summer before it was too late.

 Bluegray Gnatcatcher Sept 3, Green's Island

We don't get many of these in Penobscot Bay,  

 This years Guillemot,  spooge pool Seal Island

 two Solitary Sandpiper, also at Seal Island, there had been a buff breasted there the day before, seen by Stacey and Frank.

one might find a Peregrine at Seal Island any day of the year, mid to late September early October one is likely to see several

 Peregrine takeoff,

 here is a look at the long hands of a 2016 model laughing gull

 skinny little head, remind you of anything?  sometimes a laughing gull against the light has a jaegaresque,  (skua like, (arctic skua like not great skua like)) especially if your are jaegaring for jaegars.

I believe that Jaegars (Skuas), used to be in the family Laridae, Gulls, I think they have been split from there by taxonomists, doubtless because they are so cool.  I think we should move Laughing gulls into the jaegar family, to see if they get along.

 there are Porpoise

 can see eye of Madre

 fin of Hija

 there were these two, dogfighting over Otter Island

 Kestrel and Harrier,  not really dogfighting, the Harrier was just sailing along minding its own mind, it was the Kestrel that was the aggressor.

 back on Green's it was the warbler that was the aggressor in this case

 apparently, to facilitate consumption, the victim required some anesthesia

 here provided by the predator by beating the victim against a limb, repeatedly.

maybe the caterpillar, that became black and white warbler this afternoon, will become Merlin this evening.