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

recent photos from Trips to Seal Island

first half of June 2023, photos from trips to Seal Island.

still a few gannets passing by

lots of Wilsons Petrels,  they showed up during the first week in June, a bit earlier than usual I think.

GoldenSeal and blue baby,   Southern Poplestone ledge

 eagle chick,  Otter Island

Harlequins and eider hens Brimstone,  

Harlequins and eider Little Diamond rock,  June 10

red-necked phalarope, June 10

June 10th red-necked Phalarope.

Eiders

Double-crested Cormorant and Razorbill

Great Cormorant

Puffins: Seal Island

mixed cormorant colony, Great and Double-crested, Seal Island

male harlequin Brimstone

Eagle Otter Island

Eiders

Puffins and a murre

Great cormorants

murre

Murre Seal Island

Razorbills

Razorbill, double crested cormorant, and great cormorant and young male eider

Male Eider

Arctic Tern Seal Island

Arctic Tern

Arctic Tern

Arctic Tern

Mink on Green's