Date: 4/22/26 2:26 pm From: Chuck & Barbara Vaughn via groups.io <cevaughn...> Subject: [centralvalleybirds] Noyo Pelagics 4/26
Greetings Central Valley Birders. I am forwarding a message from Peter
Pyle:
(Chuck Vaughn, Ukiah)
Greetings all -
We have some space available for this Sunday's full-day trip. Weather
forecast looks great, NW at 15 dropping to NW at 5 by late afternoon and
low swell. It will also be NW at 15-20 for much of the interim period
from now, which should be good for Pterodroma petrels in the vicinity.
Cost is $185; you can sign up for this trip at
https://noyopelagics.com/.
Mendocino Coast Audubon Society has been a great supporter of Noyo
Pelagics, including making scholarships available to pay full fare for
high school or collage students. They are also now stepping up further,
reserving camp sites for the night before each trip to lower the lodging
costs for those who don't mind listening to owls and waking up to
singing Pacific Wrens in the woods of MacKerricher, Van Damme, or other
local state parks.
If you are interested in the scholarship program and would like to apply
for one, contact Tim Bray <tbray...>. If you are interested in the
camp sites, contact me <ppyle...> and/or Roger Adamson
<radamson...>.
We were out for a half-day trip on the 19th and it was quite birdy out
there, with spectacular migrations of scoters and loons and an abundance
of alcids, gulls, phalaropes, and shearwaters, although the south winds
kept the albatross numbers lower than usual (15-20 as opposed to 135 at
once on the 15th) and brought us no deep-water species. Northwest winds
should change that. There are also tons (literally) of Humpback Whales
out there now, with bird flocks all around them. Marine productivity
seems very good off Mendo at the moment.
Hope to see you out there this weekend or later in the summer or fall.
