Day 19.154: Whale watching

Our nature group joined some other local birders on the whale watch boat out of Kennebunk again today. We saw a few birds but no whales - which means we get to go again for free another time. Here is some of what we saw. 

Exile #2 did not join but had a nature walk including seeing us off at the river mouth

Chimney swift

Common loon

Wilson’s storm petrel

Wilson’s storm petrel

Wilson’s storm petrel

Great black-backed gull

Gannet

Sooty shearwater

Bonaparte’s gull

Least tern

Double-crested cormorant

Fish crow

Two new life birds and a first-in-Maine (I think) and first of the year sighting of the least tern.