... and how cool isn't when a few Harbor Porpoise (Se: Tumlare) decides to slowly swim right by you when doing your bird watching?!? Look closely 😝
A pretty awesome day yesterday that just proves what an amazing and exciting hobby Birding really is!!
Haven't been Birding much these last couple of weeks -- bad weather, heavy workload etc. So when I visited my parents yesterday for some pre-summer work on the house, I took a 10 min break to scan the sea for anything that the storm from the last two days might have blown closer to shore. Thankfully 10 Gannets were fishing just a few 100m out which really made my day. THEN I caught a very quick glimps of a small Eider-like bird that swooped by and disappeared behind a cliff. I shouted "Steller's Eider!!" and grabbed my scope and ran down to the sea like a lunatic to get a better look. And yes, there it was, a beautiful adult male, just swimming around with some Common Eider friends about 30m out from the cliffs. I haven't seen one in more than 15 before yesterday. Fantastic!!
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