Yesterday, I had the pleasure of joining the Bar Harbor Whale Watch on their last whale watching trip of the season. This was a perfect day for the last trip of the season: calm with seas 1-2 feet, light winds, clear and sunny. The only whales were the small and toothed Harbor Porpoise, but we did see 13 of them during the course of the trip.
Our route took us from Bar Harbor to Mount Desert Rock. We then continued south a fair piece until we were 39 miles from Mount Desert Island. On the return, we made our way north and east Bank Comfort and then the Outer Schoodic Ridges, then back to Bar Harbor.
The offshore bird list:
~20 Snow Goose
~400 Canada Goose
245+ Common Eider
7 Long-tailed Duck
18 Common Loon – all but one were flying in a southerly direction
63 Northern Fulmar
2 Great Shearwater
50+ unidentified shearwaters
13 Northern Gannet
12 Great Cormorant
3 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Bald Eagle – at Mount Desert Rock
7 Purple Sandpiper
1 Black-legged Kittiwake
76 Herring Gull
12 Great Black-backed Gull
1 unidentified warbler – flying around the boat 39 miles south of Mount Desert Island
1 Dark-eyed Junco – flying around the boat as we approached Mount Desert Rock
Richard MacDonald
The Natural History Center
6 Firefly Lane, "On the Village Green"
P.O. Box 6
Bar Harbor, Maine 04609
207/801-2617 (store)
207/266-9461 (mobile)
Rich@TheNaturalHistoryCenter.com
www.TheNaturalHistoryCenter.com
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