From: Tom Reed <[email protected]> Date: September 5, 2011 2:57:53 PM EDT To: <[email protected]>[email protected] Subject: [JerseyBirds] Reminder: Cape May pelagic -- Sept. 11 Reply-To: Tom Reed <[email protected]>
All, This is a final reminder regarding the pelagic trip that will be sailing out of Wildwood Crest next Sunday. We still need a few more folks in order to sail. Recent offshore fishing trips report a good amount of birdlife, and this is a very intriguing time of year to run a pelagic. New Jersey's first record for Black-capped Petrel was on Sept. 16, 1991, in offshore waters. We're still inside White-faced (and Band-rumped) Storm-Petrel season, and based on what's been seen offshore this summer, as well as onshore after Irene, it seems a great time to give it a go. Here are the details, as lifted from my original announcement a few weeks ago: The trip will be aboard the 110ft. Atlantic Star, the same boat that was utilized for the highly successful May pelagic earlier this year. The Atlantic Star is part of the Starlight Fleet, located at 6200 Park Boulevard, Wildwood Crest. We'll depart at midnight and arrive back around 6:00pm. Please keep in mind that the boat does not have bunks available. The price per person will be $185, which is very reasonable for this boat, and ALL MONEY will be dedicated SOLELY to COSTS RELATED TO THE TRIP. Some of the birds we'll be hoping for include: Audubon's Shearwater, White-faced Storm-Petrel, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, Red-necked Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Bridled Tern, Arctic Tern, South Polar Skua, Pomarine Jaeger, and Long-tailed Jaeger, among other more reliable species, and who knows what else! Please send me an email, off-list, if you would like to come or if you have any questions. Hope to see you on board! -- Tom Reed Reed's Beach NJ coturnicops at gmail dot com How to report NJ bird sightings: <http://www.njbrc.net/reportto.html> -- Tom Johnson Cape May, NJ [email protected] -- 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/ --
