• Sunday 27th November 2016 SOSSA PELAGIC TRIP, KIAMA, NSW, AUSTRALIA.

    Date: Sunday 27th November 2016
    Air temp: 14-23 degrees
    Air pressure: 1024Hp Cloud cover: 4/5 morning 2/5 afternoon
    Wind speed and direction: 5-7 Knots east increasing to 10-12 knots in afternoon.
    Sea conditions: 1.5m SE Swell: Southerly 1-1.5mtrs

    Comments
    A very interesting day at sea with birds being well scattered. Overcast conditions, light winds in the morning and poor light made for very difficult conditions for seeing birds. The conditions improved after mid-day with the cloud clearing and winds increasing to 10-12 knots from the east.
    Once again unusually high numbers of Hutton’s Shearwaters both in shore and particularly beyond the Continental Shelf.
    1st Chumming location Lat 34 45 059 Long 151 13 098. 110 Fathoms
    2nd Chumming location Lat 34 45 206 Long 151 13 170. 300 Fathoms
    3rd Chumming location Lat 34 41 474 Long 151 05 460 79.5 Fathoms

    Highlights: Mottled Petrel, Cook’s Petrel and White-chinned Petrels.

    Birds
    Sp No Species Number
    075 Great-winged Petrel,(Grey-faced Petrel) Pterodroma gouldi - 15 (8)
    971 Providence (Solander’s) Petrel) Pterodroma solanderi - 3 (2)
    919 Mottled Petrel, Pterodroma inexpectata - 1
    918 Cook’s Petrel, Pterodroma cooki - 1
    915 White-chinned Petrel, Procellaria aequinoctialis - 5 (3)
    069 Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus pacificus - 100+ (18)
    072 Flesh-footed Shearwater, Puffinus carneipes - 5+ (3)
    071 Short-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris – 100’s (15-20)
    068 Fluttering Shearwater, Puffinus gavial - 10+ (5)
    913 Hutton’s Shearwater, Puffinus huttoni - 200+
    Wandering Albatross, Diomedea spp - 3 (2)
    086 Wandering Albatross, Diomedea exulans - 1
    847 Gibson’s Albatross, Diomedea gibsoni - 2
    088 Black-browed Albatross, Thalassarche melanophrys - 2
    859 Campbell Albatross, Thalassarche impavida - 1 (imm)
    861 White-capped Albatross, Thalassarche steadi - 20+ (14)
    063 Wilson’s Storm-Petrel, Oceanites oceanicus - 15+ (3)
    065 White-faced Storm-Petrel, Pelagodroma marina - 2 (1)
    104 Australasian Gannet, Morus serrator - 10+ (6)
    100 Little Pied Cormorant, Phalacrocorax melanoleucos - 1
    097 Little black Cormorant, Phalacrocorax sulcirostris - 3
    096 Great Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo - 2
    106 Australian Pelican, Pelicanus conspicillatus - 2
    945 Pomarine Jaeger, Stercorarius pomarinus - 3+ (2)
    125 Silver Gull, Larus novaehollandiae - 15+ (8)
    115 Crested Tern, Sterna bergii - 6+ (2)

    Mammals
    Oceanic Bottle-nosed Dolphins
    Risso’s Dolphins