Whales and Birds

Hi Everyone
Today started out as a nice clear day with a bit of a fog bank rolling in. I took these photo's this morning as the sun was rising over Freeport and you can see the fog rolling in. Went up to the bird banding station and a big group of migrate birds finally started to move through and into the nets. I took my newphew up and he was treated to many species of birds he had never seen before. I have posted some of the pictures i managed to get before i had to leave to go on the morning whale watching cruise at 10:30. By that time the fog started to roll back in and it had breezed up a bit but this didn't deter us and as we got out to the ledge area we sighted meteor, magpie and lagoon.
We then headed in and Shelley and I jumped ship and went on the Mega Nova for the 1:30 cruise.
As we headed out Northern Light on our second cruise we sighted a Merlin fly by!
Lots of Great Blue Herons sitting up in the trees as we went passed the lodge out through the passage. We went out to the ledge area again and sighted up to 8 different humpback whales! These included Lagoon, Magpie, Foggy, Slumber, 0985, Teather, Froth, and Blanco. We went in towards Gull rock and stopped at the ledges to view the harbor and grey seals. We had a lovely view today of basalt rocks and a cliff called greenhead.
Some of the birds we sighted out there today were: Red-necked phalaropes, gannets, 1 puffin, wilson storm petrel, greater and sooty shearwaters, and 1 hummingbird buzzed by us.