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| Sat 8 | | Brown Booby, Masked Booby
Offshore--Sydney Pelagic |
| | Highlights on today's pelagic in very challenging conditions included a female Brown Booby seen some 13km offshore and a Masked Booby seen briefly at the drift. We were buffeted by strong northeasterly winds throughout the day which increased around midday. Surprisingly water temperatures were a little cooler at 19.8C than recent October pelagic trips. This is the second offshore record of Brown Booby from Sydney pelagic since the first in December 1998. Interestingly that trip also experienced similar conditions as noted in the trip report... "A somewhat uncomfortable trip due to the strong northeasterly winds.". Other highlights included many Wedge-tailed Shearwaters closer inshore and good numbers of Flesh-footed Shearwaters offshore. A distant Sooty Tern was seen heading south. Pomarine Jaegers were also seen throughout the day. Other expected species included Hutton's and Fluttering shearwaters and Australasian Gannets. A lone Black-browed Albatross at the shelf proved to be the only albatross encountered during the day despite all of the activity we had throughout the voyage out and back. Same with Providence and Grey-faced petrels, one of each. Two Wilson's Storm-Petrels joined the slick at the drift. Photograph: Greg McLachlan. eBird checklist | | Sydney pelagics and all on board 9/11 #272863 |
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