Showing posts with label Hump-backed Whale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hump-backed Whale. Show all posts

Monday, August 08, 2016

Whale Watch Highlights

Our trip to Newburyport was supposed to include a pelagic birding trip, but that was canceled and we settled for a regular whale watch. There were a few pelagic birds along the way, but they were too distant for good photographs.

As always, some of the most interesting photo are serendipitous ... unplanned, and even unknown until reviewed as the fact, as with the passing Common Tern in this photo of a Hump-backed Whale


The whale watching was quite good, with "Owl," a 30 year old Hump-backed Whale doing a series of picturesque dives ...





In the estuary of the Merrimack River, the outflow met the in-coming tide and stirred the fish in the water. The abundance of food at this point is evident is the number of Common Terns fishing ...




Good Birding!!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Pelagic Trip & Plum Island Birding

Here are a few more photos from the pelagic trip off the Massachusetts coast & Plum Island earlier this week.

Greater Shearwater ...

Cory's Shearwater ...

Atlantic White-sided Dolphins ...

Hump-backed Whale diving ...

Osprey ...

Snowy Egrets in a feeding frenzy (Sandy Point) ...

American Kestrel (female) ...

Good Birding!

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