The American Princess whale watching boat will be running another overnight birding pelagic trip on July 16-17 out of Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn.
Deep water off the Hudson Canyon (and adjacent canyons) holds a great many possibilities in mid-summer, and the mid-July window is an under-explored one in New York pelagic history. A good variety of shearwaters (6 taxa) and storm-petrels (3 taxa) are regularly seen, and as we get into warmer summer waters, possibilities for Pterodroma petrels, tropicbirds, and boobies increase. The overnight trip at the end of June a couple of weeks ago featured very good encounters with Scopoli’s Shearwater and Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (perhaps of two different taxa/populations), as well as a constant presence of Wilson’s Storm-apetrel, Cory’s Shearwater, and Great Shearwater. We also came across a Sperm Whale, an exciting pod of Striped Dolphin, Fin and Humpback whales, several pods of Risso’s Dolphins, and a few Loggerhead Sea Turtles. For those interested in the upcoming July trip, the link is here: https://americanprincesscruises.com/events/24-hour-pelagic-marine-wildlife-trip-07-17-2023/ Good summer seabirding! -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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
