Jeff Webb and I took the afternoon whale watch out of Bar Harbor today on the Friendship V. The main whale activity was near Mt. Desert Rock, with a pod of 4 Humpbacks & 2 loners seen as well as 1 Fin. Good numbers of pelagic birds but little variety... we couldn't pick out a single Shearwater that wasn't a Greater, although we tried our best. Lots of Phalaropes in numerous small flocks, but mostly on the move or too distant to ID.
Species seen:
~20 Wilson's Storm Petrel
100+ Phalarope sp. (mostly in flight)
100+ Northern Gannets
300+ Greater Shearwater
1 Black Guillemot
1 Hummingbird (about 8 miles offshore)
1 Monarch butterfly (seen right after Hummingbird)
6 Humpback Whale
1 Fin Whale
150+ Gray Seals
100+ Harbor Seals (both Seal species at Mt. Desert Rock)
Sean Smith
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