After last Sunday’s puffin trip to Seal Island, I put together a promotional video for Isle au Haut Ferry. It has some better video of the Red-billed Tropicbird, starting at about 2:38. If anyone has wondered what this particular puffin trip looks like, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu_o0CxHwdw. There are a couple more puffin trips over the next two Sundays, but some future trips to plan for:
I expect the Island Heritage Trust and the Ferry to do another Harlequin Duck trip to Isle au Haut next March. The last three have had good luck with weather and birds. There will likely be a Seal Island trip in early winter. (It was cancelled by bad weather last year.) Seal Island is the second largest Gray Seal pupping colony in the east. (There are over 4000 seals off Martha’s Vineyard, which is the largest.)
Which is all to say that Maine birders are getting more and more opportunities to get offshore these days. Huzzah.
Bob Duchesne
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