Date: 6/27/25 9:02 am From: Chuck & Barbara Vaughn via groups.io <cevaughn...> Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Upcoming Fort Bragg pelagics
Greetings Central Valley Birders- I am forwarding a message from Peter Pyle regarding two July pelagic trips out of Fort Bragg.
There are still some spaces open on both of these trips out of Fort
Bragg. July 15th is a 10-hour trip and the 16th a 5-hour trip. If you
are coming up for one, you might as well do both!
Due to deep water being close to shore we do get plenty of good birds on
the 5-hour trips including, this spring, Short-tailed Albatross,
Murphy's Petrels, Hawaiian Petrels, the Heradlish Petrel, Laysan
Albatross, and all the pelagic regulars. If weather is good enough (as
is usually the case mid-July) we can make it out to 15 miles where we
had some 18 Cook's Petrels on our June 15th trip. See our trip report
for some nice photos of these:
Given dozens (and up to 600+) Black-footed Albatross on all of our trips
to Noyo Canyon, we're anticipating one of the Southern Hemisphere
species of albatross out there one of these days, and summer is as good
a time as any.
Whales are also starting to show up and we regularly get Humpbacks,
Fins, and Blues on the half-day trips, and Sperm Whales have been seen
over the years out there in summer.
Hope to see you up here next month or later in the fall! Peter
