A spring Storm Petrel, doesn't happen every year.
Red-breasted Mergansers, which also don't happen every year; seemingly two males, one undergoing a retarded first pre-breeding moult, the other following a more standard schedule.
A Saturday evening of skuas and Kittiwakes and Arctic Tern and Fulmar and Storm Petrel, oh my! And a Sunday morning of very little at all saved by the reappearance of the two mergansers pretty much made up the weekend. And then it was home to a freshly baked fruit-cake. Oh yeeeeah!
2 comments:
Wouldn't that second merganser just be a female?
Nope. Not that you can see from the photos but it had dark feathering coming through on the head, e.g. around the eye and at the base of the bill.
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