Our April 7-18, 2012 tour is a confirmed departure! Ready to go? Besides the great weather and whales in April, there are some terrific prices on the Cabo San Lucas to San Diego flight for your return home. Email today and we’ll save you a spot.
Pelagic birding marketing guru, leader, chummer and moviemaker has released a “trailer” for the upcoming white-chinned petrel movie. Enjoy it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDathWSjSxo
Today was a good day for seabirds and for whales. We saw sperm whales, blue whales, fin whales, Baird’s beaked whales and Pacific white-sided and common dolphins.
We added lots of shearwaters to our list and had a really good look at three south polar skuas flying around the boat. The passengers were complaining that the birds were too close and they couldn’t get a good picture!
Photo of Black-footed albatross by Tim Worfolk
Seabirders on the September 5-9 trip were thrilled to report a very unusual sighting of a southern ocean bird–the white chinned petrel. They are searching around the Channel Islands today and the bird flew past the boat. We should get photos when the birders return on Friday morning! All on board got a new life bird today, including all the esteemed leaders, Todd McGrath, Paul Guris, Terry Hunefeld, and Adam Searcy.
They left the dock about three hours ago and already report seeing all three jaegers and nice shows of fin and blue whales! We are hoping for a birdy afternoon and evening. More reports to follow.
Photo of Northern Fulmar by Tim Worfolk
