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A Devonian Goes Mental Over a Fea's! (1 Viewer)
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Oh the woes of being so many thousand kilometres from the Western Approaches! 
O, the woes, I do remember a pelagic off Scilly many a year back when we ran into countless Great Shearwaters and what a treat that was - but a Fea's! What a lucky guy you are!
I can imagine your excitement - pretty much the same when we encountered a Wandering Albatross off the Cape of Good Hope last year. It is ny biggest regret living out here in Lithuania - no sea! Baltic Sea doesn't count - Gannet would be a mindblower
O, the woes, I do remember a pelagic off Scilly many a year back when we ran into countless Great Shearwaters and what a treat that was - but a Fea's! What a lucky guy you are! I can imagine your excitement - pretty much the same when we encountered a Wandering Albatross off the Cape of Good Hope last year. It is ny biggest regret living out here in Lithuania - no sea! Baltic Sea doesn't count - Gannet would be a mindblower
Andrew
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I must apologise for the Kittiwake, I wasn't thinking of you as an American but just another keen birder and thought the Kittiwake would be nothing to you too. It was in fact on the water about twenty metres from the boat about half an hour after we left Hugh Town. Should have realised it might have been something to you. Sorry.Glen Tepke said:
I too did not make the connection as at the time I just knew your name was Glen and did not enquire of your full name preferring to be on first name terms. Good to have met you and glad that the rush was just as good for you as it was for us. I wonder if you are one of a few Americans to have seen a Fea's?
Andrew
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Padraig, Tim, Dave and John,
Thanks for the good wishes and I genuinely hope you all see a Fea's too as it the feeling is so good that I want others to experience it too!
Jos,
Here's hoping a strong breeze carries over a mind blowing Gannet your way followed by the next rarest bird and onwards.
Thanks for the good wishes and I genuinely hope you all see a Fea's too as it the feeling is so good that I want others to experience it too!
Jos,
Here's hoping a strong breeze carries over a mind blowing Gannet your way followed by the next rarest bird and onwards.
Gerry Hooper
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Wow! Well Done Andrew.
What are you going to see next now your hopes and Fea's have been realised?
What are you going to see next now your hopes and Fea's have been realised?
ground-roller
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Fantastic account - brings back memories of the pleagic when we also had Fea's and Wilson's staright after each other. Unfortunately I've lost one of my good birds over Ben, who was on the boat with you, but i know he and the scilly birders have put the effort in for this one so they deserve it
Glen Tepke
Oceanodroma
Andrew said:
No need to apologise - I have no expectation that someone will point out every bird on a trip. I expect to miss some birds while I am distracted by my attempts to photographed them. I will probably get kittiwake for my year list at home -- they are fairly common offshore here in fall and winter.
Andrew said:
No, Fea's is seen fairly regularly -- up to several per year -- on pelagic trips in North Carolina (see www.patteson.com). Almost all sightings there are in May. We have done a couple of pelagic trips in North Carolina, but they were later in the summer. Even though we've now seen Fea's, we would still like to see one in North America, so at some point we will return to North Carolina in May.
Glen
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