Report prepared by: Lindsay Smith
Photographs: wedge-tailed shearwaters (D. Farine)
Departed: 07:15 returned at approx. 15:00.
Sea conditions: low 1 to 1.5m E
Weather:Cloud cover 2-3/5
Temperature max: 36 °C.
Wind: 5 to 10 knots increasing E 18 to 23 knots in the afternoon.
Sea surface temperature: 22.6°C.
005 Little Penguin, Eudyptula minor 3
079 Giant-Petrel, Macronectes sp 1
069 Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus pacificus 100’s
975 Buller’s Shearwater, Puffinus bullerii 1
072 Flesh-footed Shearwater, Puffinus carneipes 40-50
071 Short-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris 30
068 Fluttering Shearwater, Puffinus gavial 50+
088 Black-browed Albatross, Thalassarche melanophrys 3
063 Wilson’s Storm-Petrel, Oceanites oceanicus 20 -30
104 Australasian Gannet, Morus serrator 5
097 Little black Cormorant, Phalacrocorax sulcirostris 1
106 Australian Pelican, Pelicanus conspicillatus 8
980 Brown Skua, Catharacta skua 1
945 Pomarine Jaeger, Stercorarius pomarinus 1
981 Kelp Gull, Larus dominicanus 4
115 Crested Tern, Sterna bergii 10
953 Common Tern, Sterna hirundo 6