#Machias Seal Island

[jadafitch]

Machias Seal Island Light, disputed water between the Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy, Maine/New Brunswick. The lighthouse on Machias Seal Island is staffed by the Canadian Coast Guard. The island and its surrounding waters were declared a bird sanctuary in 1944. Its home to largest colony of puffins on the Atlantic Coast (south of the Gulf of St. Lawrence). During nesting season researchers reside on the island, keeping watch over the thousands of puffins, razorbills, murrs and other sea birds laying eggs and raising chicks. Machias Seal also attracts a lot of bird voyeurs from both sides of the bay, for that reason there also a resident warden on the island.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

An Atlantic Puffin on Machias Seal Island in Maine.

(Photo: COLLINS93/Depositphotos)

[heavenskiriot]

Perfect puffin. I named him Pierre.

Machias Seal Island - off the coast of Maine.

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[200isoshearwater]

razorbill auk on machias seal island

[sixhole]

Do you know how an Atlantic Puffin sounds? Though silent at sea, colonies are a cacophony of buzzy grunts that sound like chainsaw cords being pulled. You can hear some birds landing and stomping on the blind too. Listen for the high pitched wails of the Arctic Terns in the background.

This is a short video I took of the alcid colony at Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick, in June of 2023.

[dananickerson]

I was lucky to get any photos of this lighthouse in 2021… Heavy fog cancelled the first boat trip out here and I managed to get the last spot the next day. This island is the only land dispute between Canada and the US. This lighthouse is still occupied by the Canada Coast Guard. #machiassealisland #canadausa #newbrunswickcanada #maine #neighbours #foggymorning #lighthousesofcanada #lighthousesofinstagram (at Machias Seal Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_S-_7uZg5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[typezerostudios]

So when I become old enough to retire/be a crazy old coot, I plan to move to the border and declare war on either Missouri or Nebraska. I will execute this war by digging out one side of the river bank, and putting it on the other side, thus slowly eradicate the state I have decided to hate in my old age.

Ideally, I'll find a way to be invited to schools or other speaking events so I can enlist other people to join me, maybe even make this some sort of weird culture war, like Canada and the USA fighting over Machias Seal Island

Bonus points if I can buy land on the border, and the gradual shift means I have more land.

[protoplanetarydisc]

machias seal island

[pangeen]

“ Atlantic puffins “ // Harry Collins

Music:  Peder B. Helland - Planet Earth

[wigmund]

From NatHab/WWF Wildlife Photo of the Day; June 15, 2018:

Get My Good Side Mary Hindle

Species: Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) | Location: Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick/Maine

Atlantic puffin poses for a photo on Machias Seal Island—their breeding grounds.

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Puffins on Machias Seal Island in Maine

COURTESY MARY ANN INGRAO

[200isoshearwater]

atlantic puffins on machias seal island

[newsnomadblog]

Machias Seal Island: One man's war with Canada

Machias Seal Island: One man’s war with Canada

One of Barna Norton’s two grave markers reads “Barna, Defender of Machias Seal Island, U.S.A.” GRETA RYBUS FOR ATLAS OBSCURA

For centuries, the United States and Canada’s only remaining land border dispute has been kept alive by a single family.

29 September 2019 | CARA GIAIMO  | Atlas Obscura

In 1940, when he was 25 years old, Barna Norton went to a shipwrights’ shop in his hometown of…

[tidewalker77]

Puffin of Machias Seal Island, Maine.