Seth Benz and I are leading a tour based at Schoodic Education and
Research Center this week. Today's weather was ideal for taking a small
boat offshore, so we went out with Robertson Sea Tours in Milbridge. We
were rewarded with five sightings of skua. One was too distant to ID, but
the other occasions brought them in close to the boat for easy views. The
four confirmable sightings were South Polar Skuas. Due to differences in
primaries, we believe there were two individuals, sighted multiple times
as we hunted for whales.
We also stumbled into a barbarian horde of white-sided dolphins - probably
300. They played with our small boat for a long, satisfying time. We had
several encounters with ocean sunfish (mola-mola), plus basking sharks.
Loads of Great Shearwaters, but only two Sooty Shearwaters. Wilson's
Storm-petrels were present in big numbers, and both species of phalarope
were present throughout. Northern Gannets were plentiful, and we grabbed
about a dozen puffins.
Bob Duchesne
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