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 

July 5 - aug 1, 2022, Vinalhaven to Seal Island, Posted feb 28, '23

Some more Photos from the bay 

Eider Hens and Ducklings, Seal Island

Arctic Tern, Seal Island

Grey seals, near Squeaker Guzzle Seal Island, 

July 10, Dowitchers Seal Island, and a couple and fledgling terns.

July 10, Razorbill, adult and chick

Arctic Tern,  short neck, long tail, all red bill, pale upper wing.

Arctic tern,   blood red bill.

Great Cormorant chicks, July 13,

Arctic tern,

Adult Arctic tern with a round winged fledgling behind.

Puffins exploring July 17, Seal Island

Arctic tern

Puffins in Murre cove Seal Island,   observer blinds ashore, Rocky habitat for puffin nesting sites.

Great Cormorant Murre Head Seal Island.

Arctic Tern

Razorbills and Great cormorant, and a herring gull

Eiders, and a Harlequin off Brimstone.

Minnamurra

Double Crested and Great Cormorant

Coreys shearwater,    July 23

Black guillemot, and shadow

Black Guillemots

Rudy Turnstone

Wilson's Petrel,  August 1.

photos from last spring and early summer during trips out to Seal island and Matinicus Rock, posted Feb 28, '23

Herring gull pair at Seal Island
 

this is not from a trip to Seal Island, we got Phoebe's in our eaves.

this was July 6th

July first Great cormorant colony Seal Island

Great Cormorant, you can barley see blue irradecence in neck and golden wing coverts. Some Bird

Adult Gannet July 1

July 1 Brimstone,  young male Harlequin, 

near Otter Island, 

Bathing arctic Tern

Puffins and a Murre, young puffin behind the murre.  July 5 Seal Island.

Adult Razorbill and chick, July 5, in the bay

Razorbill chick, aka July Dovekie,  

again not on the way to Seal Island,  Flora overlooking Baxter park.

Sunfish, July 21, 

Harlequins Squeaker guzzle Seal Island, May 3 2023

Harlequin ducks in the surf

harlequin ducks May 3 Seal Island

May 12,  Eider, loon, laughing gulls, herring gulls, 

Broad winged hawks have been very scarce on Greens island during recent decades, that appears to be changing , meaning there was one around regularly this past summer

landing the team on Seal Island

Loon, summer vestments

Great Cormorant's and a double crested.

Matinicus Rock,  June 15,  raft of Alcids largely Razorbills