Trips 2009

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

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.

Separating dark - white rumped Storm-petrels in New England waters - Get ready for 2009

Excellent photograph of Band-rumped Storm-petrel.

Harbor Porpoise

Sperm Whales

Conservation

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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