Port Stephens Pelagic Trip Details – Tuesday 3 March 2015 (BirdLife Australia Photography Group outing)
Boat: M.V. Argonaut, skippered by Ray Horsfield
CONDITIONS
Very calm for the entire day except for the last 90 minutes or so, when a stiff nor-easter got up. Prior to that the sea was often glassy with at times no breeze whatsoever. Seas negligible on a <1m swell. Sea surface temperature up to 25 degrees in deep water.
Streaked Shearwater - Photo Mick Roderick
Departed Nelson Bay Public Wharf at 0710 returning at 1715.
Commence drift at 32 55 58s / 152 34 27e, end at 32 56 20s / 152 33 58e
BIRDS
Species: Total outside the heads (maximum number visible from the boat at one time) – many are estimates. Taxonomy follows the BirdLife Australia Working List V1.1
Shy-type Albatross: 2 (1)
Wedge-tailed Shearwater: 450 (250)
Flesh-footed Shearwater: 60 (50)
Short-tailed Shearwater: 6 (1)
Fluttering Shearwater: 2 (1)
Fluttering-type Shearwater: 2
STREAKED SHEARWATER: 2 (1)
Great-winged (Grey-faced) Petrel: 1
Pomarine Jaeger: 12 (6)
Arctic Jaeger: 2 (1)
Crested Tern: 5 (2)
Silver Gull: 4 (4)