[Maine-birds] Boothbay Harbor Mini-Pelagic, 10/12

Hi all,

In what we hope will be the first tour collaboration between Cap'n Fish Cruises and Freeport Wild Bird Supply, a 4.5hr tour on Sunday produced some solid October seabirding.

I'll post a trip report with photographs from participants (don't hesitate to send me your photos if you haven't done so already!) by week's end, and Ian Carlsen has shared the eBird reports, but here's a quick rundown.

Common Eider: 23 beyond mouth of the bay.

Surf Scoter: 61

dark-winged scoter sp: 20

Pomarine Jaegers: at least 2 winter adults (confirmed by review of photos)

Razorbill: 1 fly-by spotted by Captain and a few participants.

Black Guillemot: x

ATLANTIC PUFFIN: 3

Ring-billed Gull: 2

Herring Gull: x

Great Black-backed Gull: x 

Common Loon: 15

LEACH'S STORM-PETRELS: 3. All photographed. First bird seen only be a few, second two birds seen insanely well and for prolonged periods of time.

Great Shearwater: 91 (very conservative count)

Northern Gannet: 30 (low)

Yellow-rumped Warbler: 1 (about 22 miles from land)

Passerine sp: 1 (probably a warbler but that's as much as I can say)

Only mammals were Harbor Porpoises and Harbor Seals. 

-Derek

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 Derek and Jeannette Lovitch

 Freeport Wild Bird Supply

 541 Route One, Suite 10

 Freeport, ME 04032

 207-865-6000

 www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com  

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