• Saturday 28th November 2015 SOSSA PELAGIC TRIP, KIAMA, NSW, AUSTRALIA.

    Date / Month: 28th November 2015
    Recorded by: Jim O’Shea + Lindsay Smith
    Location: Kiama
    Water temp: 20 inshore, offshore21
    Wind speed and direction: 10-15knots S E
    Sea conditions: Low 1-1.5mts E

    Summary

    A comfortable day at sea with good views of most birds including 4 Long-tailed Jaegers in various plumage phases. Good comparative views of all three species of Jaegers together. Albatrosses were represented by Wandering D. exulans Shy / White-capped , Black-browed and Campbell Is. Unusual high numbers of Sooty Shearwaters. A Little Penguin beyond the Continental shelf in 200 Fathoms was an unexpected sighting.

    Bottle-nosed Dolphins and a small Mako shark made for an interesting day at sea.

    Sp No Species Number
    005 Little Penguin, Eudyptula minor 1
    075 Great-winged Petrel, Pterodroma macroptera 5-7
    069 Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus pacificus 35
    070 Sooty Shearwater 50+ (18)
    072 Flesh-footed Shearwater, Puffinus carneipes 1
    071 Short-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris 100
    068 Fluttering Shearwater, Puffinus gavial 40+
    086 Wandering Albatross, Diomedea exulans 1
    088 Black-browed Albatross, Thalassarche melanophrys 2
    859 Campbell Albatross, Thalassarche impavida 4
    091 Shy Albatross, Thalassarche cauta 2
    861 White-capped Albatross, Thalassarche steadi 3-4
    063 Wilson’s Storm-Petrel, Oceanites oceanicus 10 (3)
    104 Australasian Gannet, Morus serrator 3-4
    100 Little Pied Cormorant, Phalacrocorax melanoleucos 2
    096 Great Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo 2
    106 Australian Pelican, Pelicanus conspicillatus 2
    945 Pomarine Jaeger, Stercorarius pomarinus 2
    128 Arctic Jaeger, Stercorarius parasiticus 2
    933 Long-tailed Jaeger, Stercorarius longicauda 4-5
    125 Silver Gull, Larus novaehollandiae 20
    115 Crested Tern, Sterna bergii 7-8