I have just arrived in Port Stephens (central NSW) for a month, running a game
fishing boat and so far the pelagics have been impressive. The trip down from
the Gold Coast yielded the usual wedge tailed shearwaters, the odd fluttering
shearwater, and a couple of pomarine jaegers. Of note, a lone imm. Wandering
Albatross was seen wide of Seal Rocks. After some terrible northerly winds, we
finally went out just to cabbage tree island yesterday (21st Jan) and saw a
Streaked shearwater roosting with hundreds of wedge tailed SWs, a new species
for me. Today we went out to the shelf (160m) and for the day saw a few Aust
Gannets, lots of wedge tailed SW's, 3 pomarine jaegers, 4 or 5 sooty terns,
often an adult with juvenile in tow, a single tahiti petrel, white necked
petrel and another unidentified petrel (Gould's??), 10 or so fleshy footed
SW's. Also seen from a distance was a probable great winged petrel. I'll be
doing plenty more continental shelf trips in the coming
weeks and will keep posting regular reports.
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