Pelagic Trips  Outside New England

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Pacific Coast

 
SOCal Pealgcis - 2009 PELAGIC BIRDING TRIPS out of Southern California are now
listed on http://www.SoCalBirding.com
 
Trips include:
 
1. Five-day SEARCHER Deep Water Expeditions in April and September
(Murphy's Petrel, Bulwer's Petrel, Cook's Petrel, Red-billed
Tropicbird, Red-tailed Tropicbird)
 
2. Buena Vista Audubon Weekend Trips on GRANDE to deep water 120
miles off San Diego to the Cortez Bank and continental shelf edge
 
3. Los Angeles Audubon's Day Trips on the fast catamaran CONDOR
EXPRESS to the San Juan Seamount and continental shelf edge
 
4. San Diego Bird Festival Pelagic Trips to the bird-rich Nine-mile
bank in San Diego waters and the Los Coronados Islands off the coast
of Baja to see the Brown Booby colony.
 
5. Los Angeles Audubon day trips to Santa Cruz Island (Island Scrub
Jay) and the Palos Verdes Escarpment
 
6. Sea & Sage Audubon pelagic trips from Dana Point in Orange County
 
Working together, the four Audubon's have coordinated schedules to
provide excellent pelagic trip coverage throughout Southern
California for all of 2009. Pelagic Trips are scheduled for every
month but August and December.
 
Visit http://www.SoCalBirding.com for schedules, complete
itineraries, trip reports, status and distribution information, trip
photos, leaders and trip preparation tips.
 
--
W. Terry Hunefeld
Life is short.
Seabird often.
 
Seabirding Trips From San Diego
Buena Vista Audubon Society
http://www.SoCalBirding.com
Los Coronados Islands
Nine-mile, Thirty-mile, Sixty-mile Banks
Cortes & Tanner Banks
Channel Islands

Oregon

Bird Guide Pelagics has create a blog to report : recent trip results, future trip announcements, status and distribution articles, ID pointers, and news concerning West Coast seabirds. Recently posted topics are:
 
Trip results: Perpetua Bank, October 3, 2009
Laysan Albatross search trip: Saturday, March 6, 2010
Manx Shearwater status in Oregon
White-chinned Petrel in California
Solander's Petrel in British Columbia
Radio-tagged Short-tailed Albatross visits Oregon
 
Take a look and bookmark this page:
http://oregonseabirds.blogspot.com/
 
Greg Gillson
The Bird Guide, Inc.
http://thebirdguide.com/pelagics/

 
 

Europe

1. Northumberland, UK, pelagics 2010
Posted by: "Martin Kitching" Martin.Kitching1@btopenworld.com martin4903
Date: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:14 am ((PDT))
 
Northern Experience Pelagic Trip Programme 2010 (in association with Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club)

 
With less than a month before the first of this year's Northumberland
pelagics, places are filling rapidly. We do have a few spaces on all of
trips listed below, so please give me a call on (01670) 827465 for further
details or to book. I've added two further dates since originally
publicising this year's pelagics; August 12th will be a groundbreaking all
day trip to the Farne Deeps, and we've got a Whale & Dolphin Cruise from
Seahouses on September 11th - right at the peak time for Northumberland
cetacean sightings.
 
Friday 23rd July 2010
 
A 4-hour evening pelagic departing Royal Quays Marina at 18:00. Cost £30
per person. Target species; Storm Petrel, Great Skua, cetaceans
 
 
 
Friday 30th July 2010
 
A 4-hour evening pelagic departing Royal Quays Marina at 18:00. Cost £30
per person. Target species; Storm Petrel, Great Skua, cetaceans
 
 
 
Friday 6th August 2010
 
A 4-hour evening pelagic departing Royal Quays Marina at 18:00. Cost £30
per person. Target species; Storm Petrel, Great Skua, cetaceans
 
 
 
Thursday 12th August 2010
 
A 10-hour pelagic to the Farne Deeps departing Royal Quays Marina at 08:00.
Cost £60 per person. Target species; White-beaked Dolphin, Common Dolphin,
Minke Whale
 
 
 
Saturday 4th September 2010
 
An 8-hour day pelagic departing Royal Quays Marina at 09:00. Cost £45 per
person. Target species; skuas, shearwaters, cetaceans
 
 
 
Saturday 11th September 2010
 
A 4-hour Whale and Dolphin Cruise departing Seahouses Harbour at 10:00.
Cost £30 per person. Target species; White-beaked Dolphin, Minke Whale,
Harbour Porpoise.
 
 
 
Saturday 18th September 2010 - SOLD OUT
 
An 8-hour day pelagic departing Royal Quays Marina at 09:00. Cost £45 per
person. Target species; skuas, shearwaters, cetaceans
 
 
 
Our pelagic trips from Royal Quays take place on the SarahJFK, a 44ft
converted lifeboat which is used for sea-angling charters and for the last
nine years has been chartered for our pelagic trips. The boat offers an
excellent vantage point for observation of wildlife. All of our Royal Quays
pelagics are limited to a maximum of 12 participants, allowing all on board
a good opportunity to see any birds or cetaceans which are found. Some
truly outstanding opportunities for photography occur on our pelagic trips
as well, with many birds being attracted very close to the boat.
 
 
 
Our Whale & Dolphin Cruise from Seahouses will be on Glad Tidings V.
 
 
 
Our pelagic trips have proved very successful and they are an excellent way
to enjoy our offshore wildlife in the company of other birders who are
always willing to help any less experienced participants. More experienced
birders may well find that the North Sea is a new frontier for their
birding. Pelagic birding is very unpredictable but highlights of our trips
on the SarahJFK have included the 1st British North Sea Wilson's Petrel
(2002), Long-tailed Skua (2002), Sabine's Gull (2005), Harbour Porpoise
(2006), Minke Whale (2006 and 2007), Great Shearwater, Balearic Shearwater
and Pomarine Skua (2007), excellent views of Sooty Shearwater in each of the
last eight years and several very close encounters with White-beaked
Dolphins.
 
 
 
Participants should bring their own food and drink and warm/waterproof
clothing.
 
 
 
To reserve a place on any of these trips, please contact Martin Kitching
martin@newtltd.co.uk or (01670) 827465 and send a deposit of £10 per person
per trip (cheque payable to 'Northern Experience Wildlife Tours Ltd',
non-refundable if you cancel at a later date) to NEWT Ltd, 18 Frances Ville,
Scotland Gate, Northumberland, NE62 5ST. The balance of payment is due 2
weeks before sailing.
 
Martin Kitching