Date: 7/9/25 10:00 am From: Rob Fowler via groups.io <migratoriusfwlr...> Subject: [NWCALBIRD] 26 July pelagic
Hi all,
Just wanted to send something out about the upcoming Saturday, 26 July
pelagic trip I have scheduled on the Steller Sunrise. This trip will be 10
hours to give us the potential to spend some time in deep water off the Eel
River Canyon near the edge of the continental shelf.
There's been a lot of amazing seabird records from the month of July for
the rest of Northern California to the south of us (mostly from Monterey to
Sonoma County). Some of the following “Megas” that have shown up in late
July south of Humboldt County have been: Bulwer's Petrel, Chatham,
Salvin's, Light-mantled, Short-tailed, and Wandering Albatrosses! July can
be good for Hawaiian and Cook's Petrels and there's one record of
Stejneger's Petrel for the month from Monterey. Anyways....there's a lot of
possibilities for a trip to be very exciting on this date!
Since this is a 10 hour trip the price will be $200 regular and $175 for
students. I should also note that if you really want to get on this
trip--or any of my boats--but price can be an issue, please send me an
email and we can maybe work something out. I want people to get out on the
ocean with us and help us explore what the pelagic zone off of Humboldt
County has to offer and only people that can afford to pay shouldn't be the
only ones to experience the ocean here.
Ryan Terrill, Aidan Brubaker and myself will be leading.
Please contact me privately to secure one of the available spots!
Date: 7/3/25 8:14 pm From: Ken Burton via groups.io <shrikethree...> Subject: Re: [NWCALBIRD] mystery call
Yes. I was leaning that direction based on my intuition and others'
comments.
Thanks.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM Elias Elias <call7076338833...> wrote:
> Hey Ken:
>
> Are you pointing out the soft, kind of mournful, DCFL-like "pe-u." Should
> be a female or juvie BHGR. Pieplow calls it Zwee-er and has three
> renditions on this webpage.
> https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/?speciesCode=bkhgro&species=Black-headed%20Grosbeak%20-%20Pheucticus%20melanocephalus >
>
>
>
> Elias Elias
> Fresno CA
> 559-433-7254
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM Ken Burton via groups.io <shrikethree=
> <gmail.com...> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone identify this call for me? Not the obvious BHGR song. Merlin
>> doesn't recognize it either. It was in dense post-burn *Ceanothus *at
>> about 5K' in the Green Trinities today.
>>
>> Ken Burton
>> McKinleyville
>>
>>
>>
On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM Ken Burton via groups.io <shrikethree=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> Can anyone identify this call for me? Not the obvious BHGR song. Merlin
> doesn't recognize it either. It was in dense post-burn *Ceanothus *at
> about 5K' in the Green Trinities today.
>
> Ken Burton
> McKinleyville
>
>
>
Date: 7/2/25 9:27 pm From: Ken Burton via groups.io <shrikethree...> Subject: [NWCALBIRD] mystery call
Can anyone identify this call for me? Not the obvious BHGR song. Merlin doesn't recognize it either. It was in dense post-burn *Ceanothus *at about 5K' in the Green Trinities today.
Date: 6/23/25 8:46 am From: Rob Fowler via groups.io <migratoriusfwlr...> Subject: [NWCALBIRD] 28 June pelagic--many spaces available!
Hi all, Man, this weekend's Redwood Region Audubon pelagic was amazing for Murphy's Petrel studies: sunny, enough wind to get them flying, and a few circled the boat for amazingly close looks and photo ops! We had around 12 total individuals and ALL of them were from 12-15 miles west of the Humboldt Bay entrance over the shelf. We never even made it to the Eel River Canyon since it's usually a rougher ocean there. Pretty weird!
Anyways, I have plenty of space available for this weekend's 28 June pelagic trip on the Steller Sunrise. Tristan McKee and Aidan Brubaker will be co-leading with me. Contact me offline for a spot and I can also put you on my pelagic list to get updates on future trips.
Date: 6/18/25 10:02 am From: sean mcallister via groups.io <whiteouters...> Subject: [NWCALBIRD] RRAS Pelagic this Saturday
Hello Everyone,
There are still several spaces available for the Redwood Region Audubon Society sponsored pelagic birding trip scheduled for this Saturday, June 21. Cost is $150 per person. This trip will be aboard the 43' US Coast Guard Inspected Steller Sunrise with Captain Lowell Wallace Jr. This is a full day trip, departing from Woodley Island marina at 7:00 a.m. and returning by 4:00 p.m. So far, the marine forecast is looking pretty darn good, with just enough wind to put the tubenose birds on the move. A recent trip out of Noyo Harbor, just south of us, recorded more than 30 Murphy's Petrels and an astounding 17 Cook's Petrels , among many other species, including hundreds of albatross and shearwaters (see the trip list here <https://ebird.org/tripreport/385981>)!
A team of experienced sea birders will be aboard to help spot and identify birds and other wildlife: Tristan McKee, Rob Fowler, Katherine Wendell, and yours truly shall be among them.
Please contact me ASAP to sign up for this trip, or any of the other monthly RRAS pelagic trips scheduled through November:
- June 21st - July 12th - August 16th - September 13th - October 11th - November TBD
We just need to fill a few more spaces for this June trip in order to make it go, so please spread the word!
`Best,
Sean McAllister, RRAS Field Trip Coordinator <whiteouters...> (707) 496-8790
