What a day with Sea Birds & T60s Orca pod here in our beautiful Salish Sea. My morning tour was a private birding tour where we saw Tufted Puffin having lost their breeding plumage, Surf Scoter, White-winged Scoter, Harlequin Duck, Marbled Murrelet, Red-necked Grebe, Pacific Loon, Common Loon, Black Turnstone, Black Oystercatcher, Pigeon Guillemot, Pacific Murre, Pelagic Cormorant, Brandt Cormorant, Double-crested Cormorant, Bald Eagle, Great Blue Heron, Heermanns Gull, Glaucous Gull, Red-necked Phalarope, and so many more.
The afternoon tour consisted of some pinnipeds including Harbor Seals and Steller Sea Lions. Several of the above sea birds, and then the T60 pod of Bigg’s Orca. There is a one-year-old calf in the mix T60G. It was a gorgeous day on the water with a calm and glassy sea and good lighting, our third day now being smoke-free. From there we motored up to Spieden Island to view some of the exotics consisting of Mouflon Sheep from Greece, Fallow Deer from England, and Sika Deer from Asia.
“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
Jacques Cousteau
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