Day 3

Boy I still haven't answered any emails etc.. Here's why --- Woke up early (7:30am is early, right?) and went for a zodiac adventure with Barb Wire! (Barb Charlton)...

To start the day off, I threw some bread at shore to appease the gull gods - then we zipped out to the deep.. Bad idea I guess because apparently right as we were leaving a Franklin's Gull came in.. Whoops...

It was calm early, so we did some deep-lake exploration... Virtually nothing right until the end (maybe 8-10km offshore) - where we eventually found some junk floating on the water and had 2 juvenile Sabine's and 1 juvenile Little Gull feeding among it. 10 Common Terns flew over here as well...

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Return to shore for a quick break around 1 (I think) - then we started tossing bread -  which was quite productive... Lots of documentation style photos of Jaegers... No time for photos now (fell asleep at 8:30 last night, and now I need to get ready for more birding today)... Here's the ebird checklist:




HSA - off shore zodiac trip - VWB area, Hamilton, CA-ON
Sep 27, 2012 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments: with Brandon Holden - in his zodiac. Photos of many of the birds seen taken by Brandon
25 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose X
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 5
Northern Pintail 30
Green-winged Teal 14
Greater Scaup 1
White-winged Scoter 12
Long-tailed Duck 1
Common Loon 5
Double-crested Cormorant X
Sanderling 3
Sabine's Gull 3 all juvs
Bonaparte's Gull 2
Little Gull 1 dark juv
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Lesser Black-backed Gull 3 3 juvenile birds seen together
Common Tern 12
Pomarine Jaeger 2
Parasitic Jaeger 2 adult and sub adult
Long-tailed Jaeger 1
jaeger sp. 5
Peregrine Falcon 2
Horned Lark 1