Common Terns Sitting on a Lobster Buoy

The all day trip that I was on Sunday. Remember was entitled "Seabirds and Whales Tales". So I would like to show some of the photos of seabirds that we saw. A variety of seabirds were identified and could be seen with binoculars, but because of distances, and a lot of times flying away from the boat, it was hard to get photographs. All four shearwaters were identified; Great, Cory's, Manx, and Sooty. They were great black-backed gull's, herring gulls, laughing gulls and a second year black-luggage kittiwake. The gulls ranged in age from first-year to adults in their plumage. Common terns were flying around, along with parasitic jaeger in a northern fulmar. Wilson's storm petrels were flitting all around. If the whales were feeding, we would've seen a lot more seabirds because the seabirds like to pick up the sand lances that are left over. Normally, chumming brings in a lot of birds, but the only ones that seem to be interested with a great black-back gulls. All the northern Gannet's that we observed range from 1st to 3rd year plumage birds.