This was an incredible eight hours on the water - we tallied thousands and thousands of seabirds, including Greater, Sooty and Manx Shearwater; Pomarine Jaeger; Razorbill; Common Murre; Atlantic Puffin; Greater Black-backed, Lesser Black-backed, Ring-billed, and Herring Gull; Black-legged Kittiwake; Red and Red-necked Phalarope; Northern Gannet; Northern Fulmar; and Wilson's and Leach's Storm Petrel (along with others I'm probably forgetting). The Red Phalarope and the jaeger were lifers for me.

Here's a link to a bunch of the photos on Facebook.

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=35530&id=1058017803&l=82d46a70a6

It was also an amazing day for marine mammals. We saw not one, but two Right Whales, which represents almost 1% of the known population. We also saw Humpbacks, Finbacks, Minkes, Pilot Whales, Harbor Porpoise, Harbor Seals and Gray Seals. The Pilot Whales and Right Whales were cetacean lifers for me. More photos on Facebook:

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=35527&id=1058017803&l=3b9b327726

Jill

Benton, ME
Canon Digital Rebel XT
Canon EF70-300 F4-5.6 IS USM

Jill--

Sounds like a fantastic trip - pelagics down here in the Gulf of Mexico are seldom so productive!

I'll have to get up that way and do one in the north Atlantic!

Kevin Morgan
Baton Rouge LA

How exciting!! Those phalaropes are neat looking birds! I've never seen any of these birds before. The whales and seals are neat looking too especially the Grey seal.

sarah merion station, Pennsylvania zone 6B

That is a good trip. Never seen a Right Whale. Chased on that was in the Delaware some years back but didn't get lucky.

I think I remember that whale sounds familiar I never saw it either. If you want to help save the right whale you can send a message to the NOAA administator

http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/rightwhale_1009/forward


sarah merion station, Pennsylvania zone 6B