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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dominique Verbelen" data-source="post: 1275743" data-attributes="member: 61495">hi charlie,all boats used on the 3 up bob trips are way smaller than the gigantic pride of bilbaoas a consequence, bird observations are invariably betteras hugh states correctly: it will be damn hard to id a wilsons from the pob but it proved pretty easy last year from the upother +: the up approaches all actively fishing vessels that it encounters (2007: 4, 2008: sadly enough: 1)the bird activity around such trawlers are supermoreover, there's the chumming (pretty succesfull in 2007, hardly succesfull in 2008)combine all this and it isn 't hard to understand why the pob isn 't the best possible opportunity to see seabirds (as small as a storm petrel) very wellhaving said this: i truly enjoyed all of my 7 pob trips, was on board with counts of 3000+ great shearwaters, have seen several photographed littles, adored the wrynecks on board and had a lot of fun observing the behaviour of people who have lived on an island a millenium too long ;-)kind regards,dominique</blockquote>