Steller's Sea Eagle in Newfoundland !!?!?

[brucema...@gmail.com]

Several of us have viewed a video taken by a hiker on the East Coast Trail (2.5 km north of Bauline) at 12:30 Friday 22 April showing an obvious adult STELLER'S SEA EAGLE flying south along the coast. Everything about the video seems legitimate including the forest type, terrain and most of all Baccalieu Island in the back ground.

Apparently the Stellers Sea Eagle that was in Nova Scotia had not been seen for few days.

Keep eyes peeled. Google for an image of this spectacular bird. Anywhere that is good enough for a Bald Eagle is good enough for a Sea Eagle.

B Mactavish

[Richard Thomas]

Some stills from the video Bruce mentions have now been posted on the American Birding Association's website. Go to: aba.org ; click on the Rare Bird Alert panel; then click on the ABA's Facebook RBA
pane when it pops up on the left side of the main RBA 'page'.

[Tony L.]

I couldn't find a Facebook link on that page. There is a Twitter link, however, the most recent entry is from August 2021.

[David Shepherd]

Tony

I couldn't either - so I Googled "Facebook ABA rare bird alert" and Bingo! It's bookmarked now for future use!

DS

[Geoff Smith]

I hiked the ECT north of Bauline, to the location Bruce mentioned, where the eagle was last seen, this morning. I then hung around on the lower part of the coast for another hour or so. No luck.

[Richard Thomas]

Tony, the Facebook link appears just below the Twitter link, but takes a while to pop up.

[Paul Linegar]

Checked Spaniard's Bay on April 25. Within two minutes of getting there a bald eagle flew in and spent at least an hour picking at something on the beach next to the ring-billed gull colony. I was surprised by how little the gulls and crows cared about the eagle. Hmmmm, Bellevue Beach next.

[Martin Berrigan]

On Monday, April 25, 2022 at 5:01:07 PM UTC-2:30, pdli...@gmail.com wrote:
> Checked Spaniard's Bay on April 25. Within two minutes of getting there a bald eagle flew in and spent at least an hour picking at something on the beach next to the ring-billed gull colony. I was surprised by how little the gulls and crows cared about the eagle. Hmmmm, Bellevue Beach next.

I think your on the right track P.L,best habitat would be where ocean and Freshwater meet with big low and high tides,I've a feeling like most I believe this bird first accessed North America in Alaska I think, from Western Canada,here and there then I think New Brunswick or there-about,then Maine,Massachusett,probable Vermount,then Nova Scotia but I was following this birds journey,might this be it's second visit there in Nova Scotia,I could be wrong but the question that has followed this bird thru-out it's journey is could it ever make it home,well I always felt that this bird would end up here,it's basically circling the globe in the moderate cold North climate,I believe as I am a big optimist that the bird thou spotted flying South is actually flying North on it's journey,I believe the only chance to see this bird will be along the North-east coast far North of St.John's and this bird is gonna fill up in a rich habitat somewhere between the coast-line of Bonavista bay to La scie,but I expect this Eagle to cross the ocean before La scie,probably T.S spots the bird on the Long Shore,this bird is headed her way and she's due a rare sighting,as a optimist I expect the bird to cross the sea and finally make it home but it's gonna take about two more months to do so because it's still got 35 per-cent of the globe to cross to make it home.If you got the time Paul now is the time to stay on the North-east coast and notify all the contacts and fishermen possible in those areas,I'm a gambler and I'd easily bet good money at 5 to 1 odd's that you will find the bird if you got time,every bay you pass thru,connect with the fishermen,exchange numbers so as you move North what lies South of you will be checked on.Best of luck.This is the hunt you dream of and time is of the essence.Gerard

[Darroch Whitaker]

Hey folks, FYI a fellow posted a couple pictures of the Steller's Sea Eagle on Twitter yesterday. Says he saw it on Monday, May 30th at Killibuck Cove, ~ 2 km north of McCallum along the south coast, and that it hung around all day. Not the easiest place to get to and who knows where it might be now, but anyway another dot to add to the map. Not sure what his name is but account name is @SemperFear, hopefully he's not a Russian birding spam bot!

Darroch

[Martin Berrigan]

On Friday, June 3, 2022 at 10:47:49 AM UTC-4, Darroch Whitaker wrote:
> Hey folks, FYI a fellow posted a couple pictures of the Steller's Sea Eagle on Twitter yesterday. Says he saw it on Monday, May 30th at Killibuck Cove, ~ 2 km north of McCallum along the south coast, and that it hung around all day. Not the easiest place to get to and who knows where it might be now, but anyway another dot to add to the map. Not sure what his name is but account name is @SemperFear, hopefully he's not a Russian birding spam bot!
>
> Darroch

I just went straight to the site and considering the person is a Commercial diver it makes absolute perfect sense that he would be in that area doing a specific dive for whatever purpose.Two pictures showing ideally classic Newfoundland habitat hilly,scraggly forest and barren rocky all together,he has posted two pictures and since he is in a very sheltered Cove,actually on Google Earth it is an amazing isolated Cove,it would be a great place for the Stellar eagle to access some food.I believe wholeheartedly that these pictures are legit,both pictures have the eagle in the same tree but taken at an interval showing the eagle in a different stance and the background identical.The background for that area in Google show's scraggly forest,hilly and barren,and the pictures show the habitat perfectly.Gerard