26th February 2011, SOSSA PELAGIC TRIP, WOLLONGONG, NSW, AUSTRALIA

Report prepared by: Graham Barwell.

We went out to 34° 22' 02" S; 151° 23' 45" E, 45 km E of the harbour in
pelagic waters, where we stopped for a bit over half an hour,
11.30-12.00, before turning back in. The water temp. was 23.8° about
13 km E of the harbour and a degree higher at 24.8° in pelagic
waters. Where I haven't given an estimate of the numbers seen, it
means the birds were relatively numerous.

2 Black-browed Albatross (adult. & imm.)
2 Shy Albatross (adult & imm.)
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Flesh-footed Shearwater
3 Sooty Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
1 Streaked Shearwater (seen about 9 km E of the harbour in inshore
waters; flew past and did not come in to the boat)
1 Fluttering Shearwater
5 Hutton's Shearwater
c. 20 Great-winged Petrel
c. 12 Australasian Gannet
c. 20 Pomarine Jaeger
1 Arctic Jaeger (called as this species but too far off for me to be
certain of its identity)
7 Long-tailed Jaeger
1 Sooty Tern
Crested Tern
2 Kelp Gull
Silver Gull

There was also a poor sighting of a cetacean sp., but not at all clear what it was.