Inspired by Bill Townsend’s “Gannets galore” post, I closed shop for a few hours to plop myself down on Otter Cliff, Acadia National Park, and watch the gannets. I decided to treat it as a proper seabird watch, counting birds for an hour from 11:30-12:30. The highlights were split between the high numbers of gannet and two Northern Fulmar! The list:
64 Common Eider
3 Black Scoter
7 Common Loon
0 grebes – I was surprised not to find any
2 Northern Fulmar – These two birds were scoped far off, skirting the edge of the fog-bank. Both were light morphs.
83 Northern Gannet
1 Double-crested Cormorant
11 Great Cormorant
2 Black Guillemot
18 Herring Gull
2 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Black-capped Chickadee
1 Song Sparrow
Richard MacDonald
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