Bunchberry

Cape Spear National Historic Site, NL
7/15/05

Black-legged Kittiwake

Ferryland, NL
7/16/05

Ferryland has an interesting history. By 1590 it was an established fishing station used by the French, Spanish and Portuguese. In the 1610s, it was the location of a number of short-lived English colonies. Then the territory was granted to George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, in 1620, who established a colony there. The town was destroyed by New France in 1696 and forgotten for centuries, In the 1980's excavations began and today it is an interesting historical site with reconstructed buildings.

Black-legged Kittiwake

Ferryland, NL
7/16/2005

Common Murre

Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, NL
7/17/2005

Black-legged Kittiwake

Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, NL
7/17/2005

Atlantic Puffin

Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, NL
7/17/05

Cape Race Lighthouse

Cape Race, NL
7/18/05

This lighthouse was in almost continuous wireless contact with the Titanic until it sank.

Spotted Sandpiper

Avalon Peninsula, NL
7/18/05

American Pipit

Cape Pine Lighthouse, NL
7/19/05

Northern Gannet

Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, NL
7/21/05

This mated pair is greeting each other after one has returned from a fishing trip with food for the single chick between them.

Northern Gannet

Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, NL
7/21/05

Waiting for his or her mate to return.

Northern Gannet

Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, NL
7/21/05

The Gannet rookery is on a small steep island barely off shore. Just far enough that mammal predators cannot get there but close enough for good photography.

Northern Gannet

Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, NL
7/21/2005

Herring Gull

Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, NL
7/21/2005