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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>Welcome to the explore.org and Audubon Live Cam Blog! Here you will find up-to-date information about our resident ospreys, Steve and Rachel, our burrowing puffin pair, seabirds galore, news from Project Puffin’s research island teams, and more!</description><title>Bird Cams</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @audubonbirdcams)</generator><link>http://birds.explore.org/</link><item><title>Project Puffin News: Sunset on Jenny Island
The perks of being a...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4a1bb11b37b50f30ac7c64de4bd092a4/tumblr_monrvp7Eia1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Project Puffin News: Sunset on Jenny Island&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The perks of being a seabird biologist off the coast of Maine are clear in moments like this. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/53384584300</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/53384584300</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:04:37 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Project Puffin : Report From Outer Green Island
Sometimes...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/27fb962494ef449fa66e0c453911ce6d/tumblr_mo8ycjA7cE1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Project Puffin : Report From Outer Green Island&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sometimes the terns just push you to the edge&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When she needs somewhere to think Island Supervisor Catherine Pham knows just where to go.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Outer Green Island is a place where jagged and craggy edges of rock drop straight off into the ocean. Here the sharp calls of the tern colony can be drowned out by the roiling saltwater.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These remote Maine Islands are dramatic examples of convergence of elements. Ocean, sky, weather, birds in flight— even though many of the islands are small, it is easy to think big around here.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy of Kaitlyn Nafziger&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/53251884885</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/53251884885</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><category>outer green island</category><category>island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>researchers</category><category>birds</category><category>seabirds</category><category>biologists</category><category>interns</category><category>project puffin</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>audubon</category><category>terns</category></item><item><title>ARCTIC TERN HATCH WATCH ALERT!


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&lt;div class="_wk"&gt;&lt;span class="userContent"&gt; &lt;br/&gt; Yesterday during a sunny morning in Seal Island’s Arctic Tern colony, one fluffy chick hatched, and today we have spotted another pip! In the next few days we expect there to be many chicks to be hatching in the colony. Stay tuned &lt;a href="http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/tern-cam"&gt;right here on Explore.org!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/53197404119</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/53197404119</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:54:15 -0400</pubDate><category>arctic tern</category><category>tern</category><category>bird</category><category>seabird</category><category>seal island</category><category>island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>egg</category><category>hatch</category><category>pip</category><category>chick</category><category>audubon</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>project puffin</category><category>explore.org</category></item><item><title>Project Puffin News from Outer Green Island:
Relaxing at the...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3d99f3c58026ee51f9af57aad2644292/tumblr_mo8xafHGr61rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Project Puffin News from Outer Green Island:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Relaxing at the Links&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With the abundance of Cow Parsnip growing on Outer Green Island, the Project Puffin seabird biologists have to be creative with the few open spaces left to them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On this unused tent platform the interns have rigged up a super-mini-golf course using whatever found objects the could gather. Watch out Tiger.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy of Kaitlyn Nafziger&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/53169518489</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/53169518489</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:50 -0400</pubDate><category>project puffin</category><category>tern</category><category>arctic tern</category><category>common tern</category><category>researchers</category><category>interns</category><category>staff</category><category>biologists</category><category>island</category><category>jenny island</category><category>outer green island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>ocean</category><category>audubon</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>Project Puffin News: Outer Green Island
Common Terns Attack!
As...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/59569edaea8c8a955d81007d5bd5d94f/tumblr_mo4ki4Yww21rwqnrwo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9edcac2bb2605c2d73d63f69e42c4084/tumblr_mo4ki4Yww21rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Project Puffin News: &lt;a href="http://projectpuffin.audubon.org/outer-green-island"&gt;Outer Green Island&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://projectpuffin.audubon.org/outer-green-island"&gt;Common Terns Attack!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As the breeding season progresses, the terns become more and more aggressive toward intruders, divebombing researchers who are trying to do counts on the nests and chicks. The terns will ceaselessly peck at their heads, try to shoot excrement on them, call out in a cacophany of sound designed in hopes of warding them off.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Imagine a tornado of terns swirling overhead with the sole purpose of driving you away. Island intern Kaitlyn Nafzinger got a lucky catch, grabbing this common tern out of the sky for a moment before letting it go again. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy of OGI Supervisor, Catherine Pham&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/53076158595</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/53076158595</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:01:14 -0400</pubDate><category>project puffin</category><category>tern</category><category>arctic tern</category><category>common tern</category><category>researchers</category><category>interns</category><category>staff</category><category>biologists</category><category>island</category><category>jenny island</category><category>outer green island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>ocean</category><category>audubon</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>Project Puffin: News From Pond Island
There is a constant...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/410948c44ce0a29301d82168574f9945/tumblr_mo4kettIxu1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Project Puffin: News From Pond Island&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is a constant struggle with the invasive plants on the Project Puffin islands. Beach pea, jewel weed, cow parsnip, these are just a few of the plants that are overrunning the islands and turning the bare rock that is ideal tern habitat into a matted tangle of weeds. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yet on Pond Island there is still time to pause to appreciate the some of these soft white blooms that have managed to grow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy of Pond Island Supervisor Kristina McOmber&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52998806012</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52998806012</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:55 -0400</pubDate><category>project puffin</category><category>tern</category><category>arctic tern</category><category>common tern</category><category>researchers</category><category>interns</category><category>staff</category><category>biologists</category><category>island</category><category>jenny island</category><category>outer green island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>ocean</category><category>audubon</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>A pretty puffin patiently protects its potential progeny in this...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f28996a480c471fa36ad43a69a22102e/tumblr_mocozmobyR1rh837ko1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A pretty puffin patiently protects its potential progeny in this peaceful and practical place.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52955895323</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52955895323</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:59:00 -0400</pubDate><category>puffin</category><category>bird</category><category>animal</category><category>nest</category><category>burrow</category><category>egg</category><category>atlantic puffin</category><category>alcid</category><category>auk</category><category>audubon</category><category>project puffin</category><category>seal island</category><category>maine</category><category>ocean</category><category>island</category><category>seabird</category><category>incubate</category><category>brood</category></item><item><title>Project Puffin News: Jenny Island
Beach Cleanup!
Island...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3fd56814b129cff364358eb8b00bdd9b/tumblr_mo4n13QcgW1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://projectpuffin.audubon.org/jenny-island"&gt;Project Puffin News: Jenny Island&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beach Cleanup!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Island Supervisor Halley and intern Kaia stand proudly next to the pile of trash that they spent the day collecting along the shores of Jenny Island. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Though it is just 3 acres, plenty of trash amasses throughout the winter when the ocean waves wash over the entirety of the island. This photo only represents a small portion of all that they actually gathered, and they haven’t even begun to tackle all the trash found inland, nor did they try to untangle the heavy lobster that array the coastline. The warped metal of the traps presents a hazard unless you come equipped with heavy gloves, and there were plenty of pieces of dock foam, empty oil cans and bottles to keep them busy besides.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;By cleaning up this trash, it will prevent all of this waste from washing into the ocean waters and presenting a threat to the marine wildlife. They are also trying to remove the plastic that the terns might try to steal for nesting material.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“I can’t imagine what it must be like cleaning up the larger islands,” said island supervisor Halley Walsh, “Jenny is just 3 acres, and it’s incredible the amount of trash that is here.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy of Adam DiNuovo&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52922516714</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52922516714</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:56 -0400</pubDate><category>project puffin</category><category>tern</category><category>arctic tern</category><category>common tern</category><category>researchers</category><category>interns</category><category>staff</category><category>biologists</category><category>island</category><category>jenny island</category><category>outer green island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>ocean</category><category>audubon</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>Rachel enjoys reading the Audubon Magazine on rainy days while...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8032598385b6593dbb75df2f7629d590/tumblr_mo8qzk4Zm01rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rachel enjoys reading the Audubon Magazine on rainy days while keeping her chicks warm and dry. &lt;strong&gt;Now printed on birch bark!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Photo courtesy of:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Constantia Oomen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52884982155</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52884982155</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:03:46 -0400</pubDate><category>bird</category><category>bird of prey</category><category>rachel</category><category>rachel and steve</category><category>audubon magazine</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>hog island</category><category>rain</category><category>weather</category><category>storm</category><category>island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>friends of hog island</category><category>photoshop</category><category>edit</category><category>cute</category><category>funny</category><category>humor</category></item><item><title>The Arctic Tern cam is now live! Located on Seal Island, Maine,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/df75168fa35d7e9cad8fac3be60b2110/tumblr_moc409Dvda1rwqnrwo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/90e2c350608e1b4a4b8f4aa8cf7afad2/tumblr_moc409Dvda1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f6563e80a62b239407364ae5116fb7d0/tumblr_moc409Dvda1rwqnrwo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Arctic Tern cam is now live! Located on Seal Island, Maine, at the opposite end of the puffin cams, this scenic view is an excellent excuse to kick back and enjoy nature at its finest. Click the link below!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/tern-cam"&gt;Arctic Tern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52867141077</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52867141077</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:55:00 -0400</pubDate><category>arctic tern</category><category>tern</category><category>common tern</category><category>explore.org</category><category>livestream</category><category>audubon</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>maine</category><category>seal island</category><category>island</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>ocean</category><category>horizon</category><category>submission</category></item><item><title>Project Puffin: News from Pond Island
This is the life. View...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2be66252bc3f78c13b13045e969fd6bb/tumblr_mo4jzrYtob1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Project Puffin: News from Pond Island&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is the life. View from the &lt;a href="http://projectpuffin.audubon.org/pond-island-nwr"&gt;Pond Island&lt;/a&gt; research tent during a lull between productivity stints and data entry. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Researchers live on these islands throughout the summer in order to conserve seabirds and get to intimately know the rhythms of the birds and the sounds of island life surrounded by rocks and ocean.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy of Pond Island Supervisor &lt;span class="gD"&gt;Kristina McOmber&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52843754242</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52843754242</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><category>project puffin</category><category>pond island</category><category>island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>ocean</category><category>sea</category><category>research</category><category>biologists</category><category>audubon</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>journal</category></item><item><title>Project Puffin: News from Outer Green Island
A day in the zany...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8c4ec7c2c82de2df4fd25469119c29ee/tumblr_mo4lb2uxRH1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/553ecf573661de792af43c3802fd8c79/tumblr_mo4lb2uxRH1rwqnrwo6_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/791f2aa924b61b006c44412bf8e30993/tumblr_mo4lb2uxRH1rwqnrwo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/efe7e84b2d033aebe4a30b2f4f5614e9/tumblr_mo4lb2uxRH1rwqnrwo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/be5393116d323e23f12e71f2d4c1e069/tumblr_mo4lb2uxRH1rwqnrwo5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d1e8f57143de00dddeac8c594991ac85/tumblr_mo4lb2uxRH1rwqnrwo4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d1f276c84fecac4db289faf31d426035/tumblr_mo4lb2uxRH1rwqnrwo7_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/999fc1aaa11cf39cee27992971e5ad53/tumblr_mo4lb2uxRH1rwqnrwo8_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://projectpuffin.audubon.org/outer-green-island"&gt;Project Puffin: News from Outer Green Island&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A day in the zany world of&lt;a href="http://projectpuffin.audubon.org/outer-green-island"&gt; Outer Green Island&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, island life is busy with data collection, studies on productivity, feeding, and the endless task of trying to keep back the vegetation. Yes, the interns and supervisors camp out in tents for the duration of the summer, taking solar showers, collecting rainwater to do dishes, taking care of business in an outhouse. And yes, they actually enjoy living among thousands and thousands of seabirds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yet beyond the daily tasks, the seabird biologists still manage to find creative ways to explore and interact with their island. As you can see from this example of a daily schedule, they work hard in order to find enough time to wander among the tidepools and search for little ocean dwellers such as the tiny crab they admired for awhile.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Outer Green Island is located very close to a small ledge dubbed “Junk of Pork” that has become a customary spot for harbor and gray seals to lounge and nap. Taking their queues from nature, Island supervisor Catherine Pham and intern Kaitlyn N. kicked back on the boulders to nap just on the other side from the rock where their friend “Benny the Seal” was resting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While searching for firewood they came across “Flotsam” a special piece of driftwood which was then decorated to become the Outer Green Island mascot, a guard eel to patrol the outside of their research tent.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They gathered fresh rhubarb to make a pie in the evening baked in a box oven set over a single propane burner, then enjoyed the sunset over the ocean as they lit a bonfire which burned till the stars came out.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Photos Courtesy of Kaitlyn Nafziger&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52765244217</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52765244217</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><category>outer green island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>island</category><category>research</category><category>project puffin</category><category>audubon</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>camp</category><category>tent</category><category>tide pools</category><category>sunset</category><category>journal</category><category>submission</category><category>ocean</category><category>seal</category><category>seabird</category><category>bird</category><category>biologists</category></item><item><title>This sunny re-imagining of the osprey chicks has become quite...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/92ffeb79b49f4618ae146141e2ef173e/tumblr_mo8edjc1TL1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This sunny re-imagining of the osprey chicks has become quite popular on the explore.org Osprey cam forum. Wonder why…?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Photo courtesy of:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span class="publisher-anchor-color"&gt;Constantia Oomen&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="bullet"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="publisher-anchor-color"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52706905280</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52706905280</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:49:12 -0400</pubDate><category>osprey</category><category>osprey chicks</category><category>photoshop</category><category>edit</category><category>hog island</category><category>audubon</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>rachel and steve</category><category>cute</category><category>funny</category><category>humor</category><category>submission</category></item><item><title>BREAKING NEWS:The Puffin and Tern cams have returned! After a...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/03bd7448dc335cf88ae41284211b06d2/tumblr_mo8cebmCVn1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/02ba862518723ba38737aa707f1af77b/tumblr_mo8cebmCVn1rwqnrwo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0c6210817b084587bf60b0f8d13d1d2f/tumblr_mo8cebmCVn1rwqnrwo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2e61a08b2f646ba4f77b5d34e21ccd36/tumblr_mo8cebmCVn1rwqnrwo4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;BREAKING NEWS:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The Puffin and Tern cams have returned! After a brief technical hiatus, the streams are now live on explore.org and are doing better than ever. Tune in to check on the puffin burrow and tern nests!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/puffin-loafing-ledge-cam"&gt;http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/puffin-loafing-ledge-cam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52705088266</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52705088266</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:06:11 -0400</pubDate><category>project puffin</category><category>audubon society</category><category>national audubon Society</category><category>hog island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>explore.org</category><category>puffin</category><category>atlantic puffin</category><category>tern</category><category>common tern</category><category>arctic tern</category><category>fish</category><category>cams</category><category>camera</category><category>webcam</category><category>livestream</category></item><item><title>Project Puffin: News From Pond Island
A black tern was spotted...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9eaf322d5c39fa562e48a2e7bd55419d/tumblr_mo4mhcZXxW1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://projectpuffin.audubon.org/pond-island-nwr"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Project Puffin: News From Pond Island&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A black tern was spotted by Pond Island supervisor Kristina McOmber, hanging out on the rockweed at low tide next to this common tern. You never know what you are going to see out on the Project Puffin Islands throughout the nesting season. Especially after big storms interesting birds will get blown ashore. The biologists do a daily bird count each morning and take note of the more unusual species that visit the researchers island home.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy of Island Supervisor Kristina McOmber&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52683424258</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52683424258</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><category>pond island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>bird</category><category>seabird</category><category>tern</category><category>common tern</category><category>arctic tern</category><category>project puffin</category><category>national audubon society</category><category>audubon</category><category>biologists</category><category>researchers</category><category>restoration</category><category>island</category></item><item><title>Project Puffin: News From Pond Island
Observe the march of the...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0040ebfe30a369a3a2409cbea144ff7f/tumblr_mo4k87COxJ1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Project Puffin: News From Pond Island&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Observe the march of the terns.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Their circuit is small, a dimpled patch of sand that blends so quietly into the landscape that we might clumsily destroy their tiny haven. Luckily, the seabird biologists of Pond Island know the signs and appreciate the beauty of these small miracles that they protect throughout the breeding season.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy of Pond Island Supervisor Kristina McOmber&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52626326541</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52626326541</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:01:00 -0400</pubDate><category>project puffin</category><category>pond island</category><category>island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>tern</category><category>tern egg</category><category>egg</category><category>audubon</category><category>audubon society</category><category>sand</category><category>beach</category><category>submission</category><category>post</category><category>research</category><category>bird</category><category>seabird</category></item><item><title>Puffins are Ready for Father’s Day- Are You?
Puffin gifts...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f78a173478816d4c4169f353b28a62a3/tumblr_mo6hh4pgep1rwqnrwo3_250.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/78c013797aaa5a921d91a87101db8497/tumblr_mo6hh4pgep1rwqnrwo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2b617d9b6e3b109deea4a7e481042ec2/tumblr_mo6hh4pgep1rwqnrwo2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Puffins are Ready for Father’s Day- Are You?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Puffin gifts for dads &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Puffins are great dads! Each parent takes equal turns incubating and feeding a single chick, safely tucked in an underground burrow. This Father’s Day, consider helping puffins while thanking a favorite Dad by &lt;a href="http://projectpuffin.audubon.org/adopt-puffin-0"&gt;adopting a research puffin&lt;/a&gt;. Your contribution is tax-deductible, and all proceeds support Audubon’s seabird interns living on Maine islands, protecting and restoring puffin nesting sites. We also have great Dad’s Day puffin gifts such as puffin boxers, belts, t-shirts, and hats available through our &lt;a href="http://shop.projectpuffin.org/hop.projectpuffin.org/&amp;t=rr9o&amp;e=2q2&amp;m" target="_blank"&gt;online store&lt;/a&gt;. Place orders by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1117901305"&gt;&lt;span class="aQJ"&gt;Tuesday, June 11th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to receive adoption papers and gifts by Father’s day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A hard winter for puffins&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br/&gt;It is not easy being a seabird! This winter, thousands of razorbills showed up along the coast of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, both areas where they were previously unknown. In February, thirty-nine puffins and 264 razorbills were found dead on a beach in Cape Cod by a single beach walker. Warmer than usual water and strong storms in the fall and winter months apparently weakened puffins and razorbills (close relatives of the puffin). This followed a summer of poor nesting success at Maine puffin colonies where puffins tried to feed their chicks oversized butterfish. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Initial observations from Maine puffin colonies this year suggest that puffin numbers are either lower, or possibly late in laying eggs. This story made &lt;a href="http://eidertrk.audubon.org/trk/r.emt?h=www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/APNewsBreak%2DAtlantic%2Dpuffins%2Din%2Dperil%2Din%2DUS%2D4569601.php&amp;t=rr9o&amp;e=2q2&amp;m" target="_blank"&gt;national news&lt;/a&gt; this week, and we will continue to update you as we receive reports from our island research teams.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interns head to islands &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; On May 28th, 25 interns and volunteers packed their bags and headed out to our seven Maine island field stations, where they will live and work for the next 10 weeks. To prepare, they spent three intensive training days at the &lt;a href="http://eidertrk.audubon.org/trk/r.emt?h=hogisland.audubon.org/&amp;t=rr9o&amp;e=2q2&amp;m" target="_blank"&gt;Hog Island Audubon Camp&lt;/a&gt;, where they learned about the ecology of the Gulf of Maine, fish identification, banding methods, and small boat safety. Dr. Michael Fahey, a fisheries biologist from the National Marine Fisheries Service presented on fish migrations that are key to seabird nesting success. Training in nautical knots proved helpful this past weekend, as the interns secured their tents and observation blinds in preparation for Tropical Storm Andrea, which delivered 30 mph winds and 9 foot seas!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52623788377</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52623788377</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:00:40 -0400</pubDate><category>audubon</category><category>Audubon Society</category><category>hog island</category><category>project puffin</category><category>steven kress</category><category>interns</category><category>hog islalnd audubon camp</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>newsletter</category><category>puffin</category><category>atlantic puffin</category><category>bird</category><category>seabird</category><category>restoration</category><category>seabird restoration program</category><category>fathers day</category><category>puffin colonies</category><category>gifts</category><category>shop</category></item><item><title>Patiently waiting for the fish, the two Hog Island Osprey chicks...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c0de8a59143544cc7192da03ccadaee7/tumblr_mo5d2ix3Dj1rh837ko1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Patiently waiting for the fish, the two Hog Island Osprey chicks are developing crops and are increasingly alert and active throughout the day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They will grow up so fast! &lt;a href="http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/live-osprey-cam"&gt;Tune in live 24/7!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52585301208</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52585301208</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:04:01 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Project Puffin: News from Outer Green Island

Island supervisor...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b3859517d6e7a174ba1cfd598e2b8e35/tumblr_mo1aggGmDt1rwqnrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d2d18b799fd9acbe2dc1c45480c8130e/tumblr_mo1aggGmDt1rwqnrwo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Project Puffin: News from Outer Green Island&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Island supervisor Catherine Pham carefully holds this female Magnolia Warbler that flitted into their research tent on Outer Green Island one day.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“Fly away little lady.”  With a light loosening of her grip this delicate winged visitor is free again.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Photos Courtesy of Kaitlyn Nafziger&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52538561385</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52538561385</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 07:53:00 -0400</pubDate><category>project puffin</category><category>island</category><category>outer green island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>audubon</category><category>audubon society</category><category>submission</category><category>researchers</category><category>research</category><category>preservation</category></item><item><title>One Chick, Two Chick
The fluffy firstborn osprey chick eats a...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qhKBfDlsWvg?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One Chick, Two Chick&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The fluffy firstborn osprey chick eats a meal of fresh fish as its sibling works its way out of the shell.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://birds.explore.org/post/52378565606</link><guid>http://birds.explore.org/post/52378565606</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:50:15 -0400</pubDate><category>osprey</category><category>highlight</category><category>feeding</category><category>hatch watch</category><category>hatch</category><category>egg</category><category>chick</category><category>osprey chicks</category><category>osprey egg</category><category>raptor</category><category>hog island</category><category>maine</category><category>coast of maine</category><category>bird</category><category>bird of prey</category><category>audubon</category><category>audubon society</category><category>friends of hog island</category><category>explore.org</category><category>webcam</category><category>camera</category><category>livestream</category></item></channel></rss>
