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This may be of interest to NY birders. The Brookline Bird Club has just announced a relatively last-minute overnight pelagic out of Hyannis, MA scheduled for the weekend of Sept 27 & 28. This is the exact same overnight trip that is usually offered only once per year and sails on average every *other* year due to weather luck. We just completed this year's trip this past weekend with great success. The overnight trip before that, in Aug 2012, was also amazing. We were weathered out in 2013. A quick summary of this year's trip: http://www.shorebirder.com/2014/08/aug-23-24-bbc-extreme-pelagic-wfsp-rbtr.html Watch Massbird for the upcoming full report. The 2012 trip: http://trips.brooklinebirdclub.org/2012/09/august-superpelagic.html This year we have the opportunity to do this for a second time. The annual August trip, which is announced during January each year, sells out months before the trip and has a waiting list. This has become the most reliable pelagic trip in North America for White-faced Storm-Petrel, and the mega rare Barolo Shearwater has been seen by us in these waters twice (once on the 2012 overnighter, and once on a single-day trip in 2007). There have been very, very few deep-water pelagic trips organized for New England waters in September, and it stands to reason that White-faced Storm-Petrel and Barolo Shearwater may be just as likely, and perhaps even MORE likely, during September. The rarity possibilities, in addition to the more expected species, are very exciting. See the below information from organizer Ida Giriunas. Note that the deadline to get enough participants signed up for the trip to be a 'go' is Sept 6th. "Greetings: We have an opportunity to rerun the recent very successful Extreme August Pelagic trip at the end of September. The birds seen in August were the White-faced Storm-petrel, Black-capped Petrel, Red-billed Tropicbird, dozens of Audubon's shearwaters, a few Band-rumped storm-petrels, a few Leach's Storm-petrels and a SOUTH POLAR SKUA as well as our common shearwaters, jaegers and phalaropes. Also seen was a WHALE SHARK and a TIGER SHARK.. We have Master birders such as Jeremiah Trimble, Marshall Iliff, Nicholas Bonomo, Mark Faherty, Luke Seitz, etc. leading our trips. Our boat, the HELEN H, is a very comfortable, fast, 100 foot fishing boat with a knowledgeable and enthusiastic Captain and crew. We use gallons of chum to attract the birds.. There are 38 bunks aboard which will be available to the first 38 who sign up. There is a full galley with excellent food at reasonable prices. Parking is free. Please let us know if you would be interested. We need enough people registered by 9/6 to plan to do so. So, if you want to join us, contact Ida Giriunas at [email protected] (781-929-8772) for further information and waiver forms. September 27,28, 2014 Hyannis to Hydrographer, Veaches, Atlantis Canyon area: 5:30 AM Saturday - 6PM Sunday for WHITE-FACED STORM PETREL, Band-Rumped and, Leach's Storm-Petrel,5 Shearwater species (including possible BAROLO), 3 Jaeger species, terns, gulls and sea ducks, possible Tropicbird, bridled tern, other rarities. Cost: $295 BBC Members, $310 non-members. Ida Giriunas For the Brookline Bird Club" Nick Bonomo Wallingford, CT -- 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/ --
