Thursday, August 13, 2009

Animals other than marine mammals




Today we observed until 2:30 when it became too rough to see well. We saw striped and Risso's dolphins and a fin whale.



A friend wrote and asked what other animals we have been seeing. Peter Duley, our resident birder, tells me that he's seen four types of shearwaters (manx, sooty, Audubon, and greater), three types of petrels (white faced, Leach's, and Wilson's), a parasitic jaeger, a yellow warbler (above), a cedar wax wing (to the right), a mourning dove, and barn swallows.






We've also seen flying fish, a mola mola or ocean sunfish, and a Portuguese Man-o-War.

Photos by Danielle Cholewiak.

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