Although our trip to Monhegan Island was mostly about the landscape, I did manage to make a few photographs of the non-human inhabitants of the island even though I did not have a long lens* with me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were plenty of birds on the island including, according to Merlin, many nesting warblers along with nesting gulls and cormorants. Common Eiders were also plentiful out past the surf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mallards on Ice Pond are clearly habituated to humans. As soon as I showed up on the small beach, every mallard on the pond made a beeline for me expecting a hand out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was also a well habituated Herring Gull present atop White Head both times we visited there. I assume that it was used to folks feeding it scraps of their snacks\/lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The photos of the seals and the cormorant colony were made when we took an afternoon boat ride around the island… it takes all of thirty minutes to circumnavigate Monhegan Island!<\/p>\n\n\n
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Late June is also a good time for wildflowers on Monhegan. The beach roses were in full bloom as were many other flowers both large and small. <\/p>\n\n\n
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* I had my 70-200 mm zoom and a 1.7x teleconverter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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