Pioneer Birding: MA - storm-petrels on the BBC Pelagic

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

MA - storm-petrels on the BBC Pelagic - 08/03

Another highlight from the most recent BBC Extreme Pelagic. The storm-petrel show really got underway in the vicinity of Hydrographer Canyon where activity picked up as we encountered deeper, warmer water. We found most of our Band-rumped Storm-petrels of Hydrographer in what proved to be a great display of this species with just about everybody on board getting reasonably good views of at least one bird. The overall tally for the day was eight Band-rumps and I'm comfortable that I saw about five of these. We also had excellent and prolonged views of Leach's Storm-petrels with over 40 birds logged in the final tally. The default species, Wilson's Storm-petrel, was found in some hundreds as usual, though perhaps not as many as we've seen in previous trips.

An excellent summary of this pelagic can be found on Nick Bonomo's Shorebirder site.

The images below were taken with a point and shoot camera, the Canon Powershot G10.