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My fairly amazing mid-winter Maine coastal birding trip today (Original Post) jpak Feb 2018 OP
What a beautiful world we live in. Thanks jpak. NT enough Feb 2018 #1
Excellent shots. cab67 Feb 2018 #2
For the record - I did not take them jpak Feb 2018 #4
Gorgeous photography and gorgeous creatures! Ohiogal Feb 2018 #3
Ask Republicans... czarjak Feb 2018 #10
Beautiful! What a great day this was. I've never seen a livetohike Feb 2018 #5
We saw all the Maine Scoters jpak Feb 2018 #6
Beautiful birds. Have you ever seen a razorbill? uppityperson Feb 2018 #7
Yes - lots of them at Witless Bay Newfoundland jpak Feb 2018 #12
Thank you for those words as that was exactly what I thought uppityperson Feb 2018 #14
NH Seacoast JDC Feb 2018 #8
Head up to Ogunquit ME - go to Perkins Cove - it's not that far from NH jpak Feb 2018 #11
Thank you! JDC Feb 2018 #13
K&R nt ProudProgressiveNow Feb 2018 #9
THAT SECOND BIRD THINKS HE IS ALL THAT Skittles Feb 2018 #15
Beautiful birds TuxedoKat Feb 2018 #16

Ohiogal

(31,999 posts)
3. Gorgeous photography and gorgeous creatures!
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 10:12 PM
Feb 2018

How can anyone not care about preserving nature and our planet?

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
7. Beautiful birds. Have you ever seen a razorbill?
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 10:55 PM
Feb 2018

I saw something in the Pacific Northwest that looked like one.

jpak

(41,758 posts)
12. Yes - lots of them at Witless Bay Newfoundland
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 10:24 AM
Feb 2018

They remind me of their extinct relative The Great Auk...

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
14. Thank you for those words as that was exactly what I thought
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 01:34 PM
Feb 2018

It had to be one who'd been blown off course and ended up over here in the Pacific, an incidental I think they are called.

JDC

(10,127 posts)
8. NH Seacoast
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 11:05 PM
Feb 2018

I saw a bald eagle today in one of the Salt marshes and a snowy owl in Rye last week. I'd love to see some of those Harlequins.

jpak

(41,758 posts)
11. Head up to Ogunquit ME - go to Perkins Cove - it's not that far from NH
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 10:21 AM
Feb 2018

Last edited Sun Feb 18, 2018, 02:31 PM - Edit history (1)

Get on the Marginal Way path.

Half way - there they are.

I've never seen that many in one place!

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