BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB PELAGIC SCHEDULE - 2009
Overnight rescheduled to 9/3-4, Spaces Available!
The BBC will be running three pelagic trips again in 2009, 2 to the offshore canyons (July, and an overnight in September), and the November Nantucket Shoals trip. See below for registration information.
- July 18, Hydrographer's Canyon (see results)
- September 3-4, Hydrographer's Canyon Overnight
- November 14, Nantucket Shoals
HYDROGRAPHER, VEATCH'S, ATLANTIS CANYONS, MASSACHUSETTS
Departure point: Helen H Dock, 136 Pleasant St., Hyannis, MA
Destination: Hydrographer, Veatch's and Atlantis Canyons (90 miles east of Nantucket, MA).
Trip organizer: Ida Giriunas, (781) 929-8772
Dates of 2009 trips: July 18, trip length: 18 hours. Overnight September 3 & 4, trip length: 42 hrs.
Costs: July: $120 members/$140 nonmembers will be adjusted for inflation or extra fuel expense. September: $290 members, $310 nonmembers
Leaders: Rick Heil, Steve Mirick, Jeremiah Trimble and Marshall Iliff.
Boat: The Helen H is a Chartered, comfortable, fast, 100-foot boat with padded bunks with an enthusiastic and experienced captain & crew.
Expected: Cory's, Greater, Sooty, Manx, and Audubon's Shearwaters. Leach's Storm-Petrel and all three jaegers.
Rare birds seen: Macaronesian Shearwater (2007); White-faced Storm-Petrel (2006); Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (2004, 2008); both skuas (2004); Bridled Tern (2006, 2007, 2008).
Marine mammals & fishes: Fin, Humpback, Minke, Long-finned Pilot, Beaked and Sperm Whales. Grampus, Saddle-back, and Bottlenose Dolphins. Basking, Blue, Mako, and Hammerhead Sharks. Tuna. Loggerhead Turtle.
NANTUCKET SHOALS, MASSACHUSETTS
DATE: November 14, 2009
Departure point: Helen H Dock, 136 Pleasant St., Hyannis, MA
Destination: Northern Nantucket Shoals and waters 20 miles east of Nantucket.
Trip length: 8 hours (7 AM - 3 PM)
Trip organizer: Ida Giriunas 781-929-8772
Cost: $90 members/$110 nonmembers will be adjusted for inflation or increase fuel expenses.
Comments: We hope to see Common and Red-throated Loons, Fulmar, Cory's, Greater, Sooty, and Manx Shearwaters, Northern Gannet, Great Cormorant and a possible Skua, Common Eider, Pomarine Jaegers, Black-legged Kittiwake, Glaucous, Iceland, Bonaparte's Gulls and Red Phalaropes. Possible Black-headed and Little Gulls. Possible alcids include: Dovekie, Common & Thick-billed Murres, Razorbill (expected), Black Guillemot (expected), and Atlantic Puffin. Marine mammals: Humpback, Fin, and Minke Whales.
Registration
To register for a trip, please fill out the waiver and mail with payment to:
Ida Giriunas
83 Summer Avenue
Reading, MA 01867
Make checks payable to 'BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB, AGENT' and specify the trips for which you are registering. If you register for more that one trip, enclose separate checks and signed waivers for each. Also, please include your phone number and either your email or postal address for confirmation, boarding instructions, and further information.
Signed waivers are mandatory for pelagic trips.