Glacier Bay 6/12--MARBLED MURRELET, TUFTED PUFFIN, Pacific Loon, Pelagic Cormorant, Black-legged Kittiwake, Arctic Tern, Common Murre

More than half the species we saw today were lifers or FOY.

I can't begin to express just how amazing Glacier Bay is. It was definitely the highlight of the entire trip. Shari took lots of photos and I'll just let them try to speak to the bay's magnificence.

Grand Pacific Glacier, 2 miles wide, 42 miles long.

Margerie Glacier 250 ft high

Margerie Glacier spewing ice into the bay

Iceberg

Bald Eagle on iceberg

Black-legged Kittiwake

The birding highlights were the 2 lifers--a total of 7 TUFTED PUFFINS in 3 groups--not "field guide looks" but we saw them well enough to i.d. them both flying & in the water, & MARBLED MURRELETS--little flying footballs of the sea.
Glacier Bay
White-winged Scoter  27
Pacific Loon  2
Pelagic Cormorant  20
Bald Eagle  6
Black-legged Kittiwake  100
Bonaparte's Gull  1
Glaucous-winged Gull  15
Arctic Tern  20
Common Murre  1
Pigeon Guillemot  3
MARBLED MURRELET  10
TUFTED PUFFIN 7