Report of Eaglehawk Neck pelagic trip on 12 March 2001
Group seabird excursion on "Pauletta"; people on board: Rob Berry, Gail
Berry, Stuart Dashper, Chris Lester, Rohan Clarke, Laurie Jones (Victoria),
David Stewart, Barbara Stewart, Ross Mullholland, Bill Sleight, Marilyn
Rix, Keri Rix (NSW), Jan Smith (USA), Bill Wakefield and Tim Reid (Tas).
Weather: Initially fine (2/8 cloud) with ~10 knot NW wind and 2m swell from
NE. At 0850 a SW front came through with wind increasing to 20-30 knots and
seas rising to state 4 with 2m sea from SW.
Sea temps 18.2-19.1oC (CSIRO satellite map gave temperatures of 19.1oC in
the area).
Departed Eaglehawk Neck jetty 0726, arrived Hippolyte Rock 0810. Reached
shelf edge 0900 at 43o11S 148o09E. Worked north-west along shelf edge and
beyond until ~1200 then zig-zagged in and out a couple of times. Arrived
back at Eaglehawk Neck jetty about 1530.
Many Short-tailed Shearwaters seen just beyond Hippolyte Rock and beyond,
numbers of albatrosses observed just before the front past, but generally
low numbers after that.
Birds seen (with maximum in brackets):
Wandering Albatross 4(2)
Southern Royal Albatross 3(1)
Shy Albatross 30(5)
Buller's Albatross 20(4)
Yellow-nosed Albatross 20(5)
Giant-petrel sp. 1(1)
Great-winged Petrel (macroptera) 20(3)
White-headed/Soft-plumaged Petrel 1(1)
Gould's Petrel 1(1)
?Gould's Petrel? 3(1)
Prion sp (Fairy?) 1(1)
White-chinned Petrel 5(2)
Short-tailed Shearwater 10 000 (1000)
Sooty Shearwater 2(1)
Hutton's Shearwater 1(1)
Fluttering Shearwater 1(1)
Fluttoni 1(1)
Grey-backed Storm-petrel 2(1)
Common Diving-petrel 20(1)
Australasian Gannet 15(2)
Black-faced Shag 10(2)
Dominican Gull 5(1)
Pacific Gull 5(2)
Silver Gull 5(1)
Crested Tern 2(2)
Great Skua 1(1)
Little Penguin 1(1)
On Hippolyte Rock
Dominican Gull 5
Silver Gull 20
Australasian Gannet 50
Black-faced Shag 500
Additions inside Pirates Bay
Black Cormorant
Little Pied Cormorant
Pied Oystercatcher
Masked Lapwing
Mammals seen
Australian Fur-seal 100 on Hippolyte Rock
Common Dolphin 20
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Tim Reid.
Nature Conservation Branch (Marine)
Department of Primary Industry, Water and Environment
PO Box 44a
Hobart
Tasmania
Australia
phone: 0011-61-3-62336018
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