Another excellent option for west coast pelagics is Westport Seabirds, out of Westport, WA. They run a regular schedule, and have for over 20 years. We just returned from one of their trips as part of our Olympic Peninsula tour. We had thousands of seabirds, which included 4 South Polar Skua, 5 Pomarine Jaeger, 4 Parasitic Jaeger, 1 Long-tailed Jaeger, 50+ Black-footed Albatross, 50+ Northern Fulmar, 1000+ Pink-footed Shearwater, 2 Buller's Shearwater, 3,000+ Sooty Shearwater, 500+ Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel, 1000+ Brown Pelican, 3 Red-necked Phalarope, 10+ Red-necked Phalarope, 100+ Sabine's Gull, 250+ Common Murre, 10+ Cassin's Auklet, 25+ Rhinocerous Auklet, 3 Tufted Puffin, and much more!!!
Brett Lakeshore Nature Tours 716-628-8226 [email protected] www.LakeshoreNatureTours.com Twitter - @brettbirding Facebook - Lakeshore Nature Tours Page On Aug 18, 2013, at 8:29 PM, julian hough wrote: > I wanted to let people that have an interest in west coast pelagics, that > there are other opportunities than leaving from Monterey. Myself and a few > other CT birders are taking a few trips this September including one out of > Half Moon Bay, run by Alvaro Jaramillo. For the traveler, Half Moon Bay is > located close to San Francisco Airport and is in some ways more convenient > than Monterey if time is tight. Although Shearwater Journeys has a more > trips, Alvaro plans to run more back to back trips in the future to be more > appealing to East Coast birders. These trips have recorded such megas as > White-chinned and Hawaiian Petrels and Short-tailed Albatross. > Check-out: > http://naturescapeimages.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/planned-it-booked-it-doing-it/ > > I will let you know how we get on! > > > Julian Hough > New Haven, CT 06519 > www.naturescapeimages.wordpress.com > > > > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
