Boat Trip Photo Salon

Birding has been spectacular on recent CMBO boat trips. We've added a weekly trip from Somer's Point to our slate, which will run every Tuesday evening June 30-September, sailing at 6 p.m. What might be seen? Take a look:

[Scanning the Black Skimmer colony at Malibu Beach last Tuesday from the pontoon boat Duke O' Fluke out of Somer's Point. Photo by Tony Geiger.]

[Tri-colored and Little Blue Herons side-by-side on Bird Island, behind Ocean City, on the Somer's Point trip. Photo by Tony Geiger, click to enlarge.]

[American Oystercatcher with chick, Pork Island on the trip from Somer's Point. Photo by Tony Geiger, click to enlarge.]

[Boats are a great way to sharpen your tern i.d. skills. Note the dark outer webs on the outer tail feathers of this Common Tern. The outer tail is white on Forster's. Photo by Tony Geiger, click to enlarge.]

[Different day, different boat: the high-tide-flooded tern and skimmer colony in Grassy Sound last Saturday, from the Osprey. Photo by Michael O'Brien, click to enlarge.]

[One of the 96 Clapper Rails we saw on Saturday. Scroll down to June 20 for the tale of that trip. Photo by Michael O'Brien, click to enlarge.]

[This Common Eider could very well be the same one that summered in the Hereford Inlet area last year. June Common Eiders are not normal. Photo by Michael O'Brien on Saturday, Richardson's Sound. Click to enlarge.]

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