New England
Seabirds
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Trips 2009
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BBC Extreme Pelagics
for 2009:
2009 trips on July 18 and
August 22 -23 Nov 14
Star Island and Seavey Island Tern Colony
Mass Audubon Joppa Flats Seabird and Whale
Newburyport
Monday, July 6, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 26, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Monday, August 10, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 22, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, September 8, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
SoCAL Pelagics - All 2009 PELAGIC BIRDING TRIPS
out of Southern California are now
listed on
http://www.SoCalBirding.com See also new
Pelagic trips outside New
England page.
Country Girl - North Carolina on May 30,
31, and June 1 and August 15, 16, 17.? Also some
trips out of South Padre Island, Texas
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June 14
NECWA
Seabird and Whale Tales Trip Stellwagen Bank
Greater,
Sooty, Manx Shearwaters, WSP, Jaegers
June 11 -Manx
Shearwaters off NH coast Steve and Jane Mirick May 25 NH Audubon Tri-state Pelagic-
Fulmar, Wilson's SP, Whales up close Manx Shearwater Show
at Revere Beach Right Whales seen from Race Point
Jeffrey Ledge Pelagic - 2/6 350
Dovekies , Fulmars, Right Whales
Ivory Gull at Eastern Point in
Gloucester gets the new year off to a spectacular start.
Bird has apparently moved south. Photograph shared by Leonard
Medlock.
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Pelagic Trips outside New
England More information for traveling
seabirders.
Separating dark - white rumped Storm-petrels in New
England waters - Get ready for 2009
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Beef Suet as chum
It works, it floats, its
cheap.
Wilson's Storm-petrel
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Excellent photograph of
Band-rumped Storm-petrel.
Harbor Porpoise
Sperm Whales
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State Parks in New Hampshire - from Jon Woolf
jsw@jwoolfden.com
Today's Union-Leader has an article about some major
changes being
considered by the NH State Division of Parks &
Recreation:
The article refers to a _draft_ "strategic capital
improvement plan"
which may be found here as a PDF document:
http://www.nhstateparks.org/uploads/StrategicCapitalImprovementPlanDraft0609.pdf
To make a long story short, the DPR is in serious budget
trouble (and
who isn't, these days?) and is trying to get the most
out of its
limited resources by focusing on the parks that perform
the
best. Out of 69 parks and properties, 27 are classified
as not worth
the resources it would take to get them up to snuff;
these are slated
to be handled through "Alternative Management
Strategies, including
decommissioning, transfer to another state agency,
transfer to
another public recreation provider, lease or other
management
agreement, or disposal through the state's surplus land
process." These 27 include several names familiar to
this
list. Among the ones I recognized are Jenness Beach,
North Hampton
Beach, and (possibly most important) White Island in the
Isles of
Shoals, home of the Tern Restoration Project.
Midway Atoll
Re-open
U.S Fish
& Wildlife announces the re-opening of Midway Atoll
Nation Wildlife Refuge in 2008. The Oceanic
Society will be offering trips from Honolulu starting
Feb 9, 2008. This is a unique opportunity to live with
Laysan Albatrosses. See
trip report.
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Webmaster
Emmalee Tarry
I had a wonderful trip to the rainforest of Peru.
See my trip report and a report on how anyone can repeat
my trip.
http://perujacamars.com
http://EmmaleeTarry.us
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