I apologize in advance for any list members who received this post from Doug Gochfeld yesterday. Many people (myself included) did not receive it and some had it go directly to their spam folder. The Pelagic reminder was posted with permission from the list owner.
The Paulagics overnight pelagic trip out of Freeport, NY is now less than a month away, and there are still a handful of spots on the boat. The plan for the trip is to leave the dock at 8 PM on Monday, August 11, aboard the 100' Starstream VIII (From the Captain Lou Fleet), and be at the Hudson Canyon, laying down a chum slick, well before the sun rises. This trip is 4 hours longer than some of the similar mid-Atlantic pelagic trips running this year, in order to give us time to more thoroughly explore these interesting and seldom-birded far off shore areas. This is the quintessential "sky is the limit" time of year for offshore pelagic trips in this region, and in addition to more expected species like Audubon's Shearwater, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Long-tailed Jaeger, Pomarine Jaeger, and Red & Red-necked Phalaropes, and slightly rarer species that we also have a good chance at, like ARCTIC TERN, BRIDLED TERN, BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL, and SOUTH POLAR SKUA, pelagic trips to deep water off the northeast at this time of year have seen such mega rarities as WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD, RED-BILLED TROPICBIRD, WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL, BAROLO SHEARWATER, BLACK-CAPPED PETREL, HERALD (TRINDADE) PETREL, and FEA'S PETREL, and it is a time of year when almost anything that occurs in warm water in the North Atlantic should be on the radar. This is at the beginning of the ideal window of time for WHITE-FACED STORM-PETRELS off the northeast, and all the largest counts in North America have been from the month of August. There will be food on board (both human food for purchase at reasonable prices, and plenty of chum for the birds for free), and there will be several experienced leaders to help people see and identify whatever we come across. It is also a great time of year for cetaceans, and deeper waters are best for SPERM WHALE, CUVIER’S BEAKED WHALE, RISSO’S DOLPHIN, and PILOT WHALE, among others. The trip returns to the dock the evening of Tuesday, August 12. *You can register/reserve space for the trip in several ways, including E-Mailing [email protected]. *Full information on registering with the always helpful and friendly Paul or Anita Guris here: http://paulagics.com/?page_id=41 More information on this particular trip here: http://paulagics.com/?page_id=575 Hope to see you aboard!! Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY. -- 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/ --
