Greetings all,

The trip last saturday, April 26th was successful in viewing a good
assortment of seabirds offshore. We encountered a large ammount of seabirds
behind a shrimp trawler which included 1 Flesh-footed Shearwater. Otherwise
we saw the usual species, and had fun with the perplexing identification
issues of seperating Sooty and Short-tailed Shearwaters.

The full trip results w/ numbers can be viewed at:

http://www.westportseabirds.com/2003.html

Our next scheduled trip is Saturday, May 17th.

See last May's results at:

http://www.westportseabirds.com/2003.html

2 Manx Shearwaters were recorded last May 18th, so who knows what will be
out there...

For information on signing up, or anything else pelagic, go to:

www.westportseabirds.com

Cheers and good birding!
Ryan Shaw
Westportseabirds spotter/webmaster

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