Black-capped Petrel & Fea's Petrel
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Fea's Petrel; we saw six last spring
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Our Gulf Stream specialty, the Black-capped Petrel
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ventral view
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juvenile Black-capped Petrel, a rare sighting!
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Cory's Shearwater; seen on each trip, but not in the numbers often found later in the summer
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Great Shearwaters started showing up in early June
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Great Shearwater
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Sooty Shearwaters were seen daily on the first few trips
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Audubon's Shearwaters did not seem to be as numerous in recent years
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A Great Shearwater with some Wilson's Storm-Petrels in the slick
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Wilson's Storm-Petrel
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Wilson's Storm-Petrel
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Wilson's Storm-Petrels with a Leach's Storm-Petrel
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Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, not molting
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juvenile Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
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White-tailed Tropicbirds were seen on 5 spring trips!
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A young Red-billed Tropicbird was seen on June 5
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Masked Booby (June 1)
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This first winter Glaucous Gull was at the dock as we departed on May 21!
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Bridled Terns are often common in the summer months, but we did see a handful in the spring.
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Roseate Tern that followed us on June 1
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Common Tern
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Arctic Tern
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Black-skimmers are usually seen while motoring out to the inlet...
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South Polar Skua; we had six last spring
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South Polar Skua
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1st summer Pomarine Jaeger
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Gervais Beaked Whale
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We encountered cooperative groups of False Killer Whales on May 29 & June 6
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Atlantic Spotted Dolphins were seen on 5 of the spring 2011 trips
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The extremely photogenic flying fish of the Gulf Stream and its' eddies:
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Portuguese Man-of-War
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& some Mahi mahi for dinner...
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Great species diversity and some wonderful photographs!
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