Yesterday the 25th International Guillemot Appreciation Day. We spent the day enjoying our local Black Guillemots and even found our first few chicks during our productivity check! If you are unfamiliar with the holiday you probably should consider participating next year (6/27) by doing anything a guillemot would do, perhaps even dressing up as one, making baked goods shaped like them or even making a flag (we did all of these on the island this year).
-- With the strong predominantly southerly winds I decided to do some seawatching in the evening hoping for some shearwaters. I was certainly not disappointed! I first picked up some small numbers of GREAT SHEARWATERS (GRSH) moving south against the wind. Their gliding and flapping flight style tight against the troughs of the waves was a welcome sight. There was some pretty good surf just outside the bay but, some bigger splashes caught my eye. It turned out to be 3 breaching humpbacks! We enjoyed them for about an hour as they preformed almost every acrobatic move a humpback could go about doing. Humpbacks are quite the unusual sighting around these parts! When I started to pick through the shearwaters more I picked out one larger individual that had a much more lumbering flight compared to the GRSH and upon further inspection it was clear that it was a CORY'S SHEARWATER (COSH). These birds seem to be becoming a more and more common sight further towards the outer edge of Penobscot Bay. Just before I lost the evening light I was able to pick out one SOOTY SHEARWATER as well!
Great Day on the Island!
Keenan Yakola
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