I am asking the question today: Do we have two horned puffins? T46Bs were also a highlight of the day. Look at the puffins from 7/13/24, six days earlier, and see if you think we have two horned puffins. It sure looks like two different birds to me. For years now we have had what we believed was a single horned puffin hanging with the tufted puffins.
My first tour of the day was a birding tour, and the only requested bird I could not find was black turnstones. Then, on the afternoon whale-watching tour, we saw black turnstones while looking at seals.
In one of the orca pics, you can see meat in the mouth of one through the water’s refraction. Seeing these guys on our doorstep after several long hauls recently was surely nice. They stayed within 15 minutes of Anacortes all day long. The day before, one of my trips was a 110-mile round trip, but we did see orcas and an excellent show, killing a Seal, with a lot of surface action and siphons.
The stellar sea lions were hilarious once again, fighting over who gets to have space on the buoy.
“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
Jacques Cousteau
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