The showers were insignificant, the ocean was calm, the birds were plentiful. I hope next Sunday’s Isle au Haut puffin trip is as good as today’s was. The Red-billed Tropicbird was simply loafing in the cove as we arrived at Seal Island around 12:30, so close that you could takes photos with a cell phone. I put a quick video up on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MaineBirdingTrail.
The ferry does another puffin trip next Sunday (www.isleauhaut.com) , and I’ll be looking to see if he is hanging out next to the same lobster buoy. The buoy was black with red handles…not all that unlike a tropicbird. Romance? He never left its side the whole time we were in the cove.
There were more gannets than last week’s trip, and the Wilson’s Storm-petrel numbers have skyrocketed. We had them the whole way from inside Stonington Harbor to the Seal Island cove. About 20 Red-necked Phalaropes, too. Just two Common Murres, though – same as last week.
Bob Duchesne
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