The Season is now upon us....

[Jasonbirder]

I suppose the Seawatching season is just getting underway in ernest (in the United Kingdom at least).
Anyone planning any trips to the South-West or booked on the Scillonian pelagic?

[Michael Frankis]

None down the southwest, but I'll be going out from Tynemouth, looking for Wilson's Petrel and whatever else might be out there

Michael

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[Edward]

Plans are still afoot for the first Icelandic pelagic this month but "organisation/p*ss-ups/breweries" are the order of the day in the Icelandic birding world. Was planning to go out on the peninsula weather permitting on Sunday and may even go on a whalewatching trip - it's been a poor year for Blue Whales but a bumper year for Killer Whales in these parts and I might try and kill two birds with one stone (or at least two creatures in the same bins), Killer Whale and Sooty Shearwater, in the next week or two.

E

[Michael Frankis]

Hi Edward,

Is the implication that the Killers have eaten the Blues?? Or at least frightened them away?

Good luck with the trip - and don't forget to look for Wilson's among the Stormies!

Michael

[Andrew]

Jasonbirder, we attempted one recently but the weather was too nice on the day so we aborted it.

I am watching the weather and will dart off to Orcombe Point when it is 'bad'.