For links to a summary of the trip, including eBird lists, you can view the eBird trip report here:
https://ebird.org/tripreport/71954 This summary will doubtless soon begin to be populated by photos from many of the camera-toting participants. The summary at the link above will provide a good synopsis of the highlights, but two of the standout sightings that bear repeating were a phenomenal experience with a White-faced Storm-Petrel feeding in the slick way out in the deep, and a mind-bogglingly good (if relatively brief) view of a small pod of 4 SOWERBY'S BEAKED WHALES. Some photos of these particular Beaked Whales can be found at this iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?locale=en-US&on=2022-08-15&preferred_place_id=1&taxon_id=41413 Here is a list of most of the fauna detected: *Seabirds/Shorebirds etc.* Red-necked Phalarope- 5 Ruddy Turnstone- 1 Great Black-backed Gull- 1 Larus sp.- 1 Herring Gull- 1 Least Tern- 1 (juv., migrating far offshore) Common Loon- 3 Wilson's Storm-Petrel - *1,050* *White-faced Storm-Petrel - 2* Leach's Storm-Petrel - *~40* *Band-rumped Storm-Petrel*- ~15 Hydrobates sp. (Unidentified long-winged Storm-Petrel)- 24 Storm-petrel sp. - 85 *Black-capped Petrel - 3* Cory's Shearwater - 15 Great Shearwater - ~40 Manx Shearwater - 2 Audubon's Shearwater - 5 *Non-birds* *Sowerby's Beaked Whale *- 4 Fin Whale - 4 Pilot Whale - 20 *Striped Dolphin* - 2-3 pods totalling 100-150 individuals Bottlenose Dolphin - one pod Risso's Dolphin - two or three encounters, ~20+ animals Common Dolphin - one pod Unidentified Cetacean - 6 (including a couple of brief observations that could have been Beaked Whales) Unidentified large whale - 2 *Chilean Devil Ray* - 1 Flying fish - many of several different species Mahi Mahi -1 Mola sp. - 2 Portuguese Man O War - 1 *Landbirds* Chimney Swift- 1 Barn Swallow- 3 Great Blue Heron- 1 Good Birding -Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
