Wednesday 13 July 2011

Day Three on St Paul, Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea

Add ImageTufted Puffin

Least Auklet

Crested Auklet (World Lifer)

Horned Puffin

Red-faced Cormorant

Arctic Fox

Northern Fur Seal with pups bottom of picture.

Thick-billed Murre as they call them here.

Rock Sandpiper (another World Lifer)


Harlequin Duck

Pelagic Cormorant

Young Harbour Seal Although these Seals are frequent visitors to the Islands, they are not known to breed here. This is the first juvenile either Michelle or Forrest have ever seen here. The records are tumbling!

Yeah! Well that was a tasty tit-bit wasn't it?

PS
We have now recorded all the breeding birds of the Island.