Sunday, June 27, 2010

Photo Update

Lately the days have been going by pretty quickly. The Sooty tern chicks are hatching and the albatross are starting to fledge. Unfortunately we had another pup get bitten by a shark yesterday and the wounds are fatal. Hopefully it dies quickly. In other news we had a strange visitor. A short eared owl has shown up on Tern island, and the other birds don't like it much as they have been giving it a strong hazing. Well that's about it. I decided just to put up a bunch of photos. Hope you enjoy.

A red-tailed tropic bird on Trig island.

The eye of a masked boobie. These loud bastards wake up the seals every time you need to get close to get a tag number, but I still really like them. 

A Laysan albatross one day closer to full flight. A monk seal mom and pup rest in the background.

I occasionally forget to photograph the turtles because they tend to get in my way while doing seal surveys, but they really are interesting animals. Here a good size group of green sea turtles is gathered on East island.

Green sea turtles on Trig island.

A white tern on the wing.

 Monk seal moms are strange. They haul out right next to each other then get angry because they are too close. This is more of a mock fight, and no harm was done to either animal. Unfortunately the pup to the right was fatally bitten by a shark yesterday.

 
A monk seal pup sleeps on its mother.

A short eared owl makes an appearance. It seems to be a little lost.

 
A sooty tern chick.

 
This sooty tern chick seems confused about who its mother is. It stands under a black footed albatross who doesn't seem to mind the company.

 The lagoon at Little Gin island, and our 17' Boston Whaler.


 A male monk seal plotting to wake up all of the females I'm trying to get tag numbers on.

A brown boobie looks on.

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