Eaglehawk Neck (Tasmania) Boat Trips - Bookings for 2007 and 2008

Dear Birding-Ausers,

Yesterday, I posted the information below on the Eaglehawk Neck (Tasmania) 
Boat Trips for 2007 and 2008.  In his inimitable style, Tony Russell 
immediately responded with his preference for staying in St. Helens and 
seeing a Westland Petrel.

While Tony might prefer to wait for a Westland Petrel to fly past St. 
Helens, we have also seen terrific rarities on some of our trips.  These 
include:

Fiordland Penguin (once), Snares Penguin (once), Southern Fulmar (5 
times), White-headed Petrel (regularly), Providence Petrel (once), 
Soft-plumaged Petrel (regularly), Mottled Petrel (4 times), Gould's Petrel 
(regularly), Antarctic and Slender-billed Prions (regularly), Westland 
Petrel (once), Grey Petrel (twice), Buller's Shearwater (once), 
Grey-headed Albatross (twice), Black-bellied Storm-Petrel (twice) and 
Long-tailed Jaeger (twice).

Of course, we don't see rare birds on every trip from Eaglehawk Neck as 
these birds have been seen over the ten years that we have been going out 
of Eaglehawk Neck.  And, there are a couple of surprising misses on our 
trips that we haven't seen (yet), but which have been seen on other trips 
from Eaglehawk Neck, namely Sooty Albatross and Light-mantled Sooty 
Albatross.

So, if you want, you are free to join Tony and Ian at St. Helens.  But, 
Eaglehawk Neck is a great site from which to start pelagic trips.  We have 
posted all our trip reports on Birding-Aus over the years and you can 
search them if you want the details.  It is also a very reliable place - 
in the ten years of running 3-4 trips a year, we have only cancelled two 
trips because of poor weather.  If you would like to try a trip with us 
this year or in 2008, please e-mail me.

Regards

Chris



Tony's Response

I think I'd prefer to stay in St Helens for a few days and only go out
with Ian when it's known the weather will be reasonable and the chance
of a Westland Petrel is good.
Some good birding places around St Helens too.

Tony.



Eaglehawk Neck (Tasmania) Boat Trips - Bookings for 2007 and 2008

Dear Birding-Ausers,

For the last few years, I have been organising pelagic boat trips from 
Eaglehawk Neck (in Tasmania) on a casual basis with Bill Wakefield of 
Tasmania.

We are jointly scheduling three trips in 2008 on:
 
24 February, 
28 September and 
30 November. 

Bill usually looks at running one or two trips in June, as well. 

We are opening bookings for these trips if anyone wishes to register an 
interest.  Please ask if you want further details.

We have run one trip already this year in February.  It was a good, solid 
trip and I have posted a trip report on Birding-Aus.  We have two more to 
run this year on 30 September and 25 November.  At this stage, I have 
vacancies for both the Sep and Nov trips.  If you want to register an 
interest, let me know. 

The east coast of Tasmania is unusual because boat trips get out in 
weather conditions that would be considered extreme in many other places 
such as Port Fairy (where I have a bit of experience also).  The land mass 
of Tasmania itself provides lots of protection for the east coast waters 
and the boat gets out most times - quite safely. 

Cost is approximately $100-120 if we get a full boat.

If you want to know what birds we see off Eaglehawk Neck, we always post 
trip reports on Birding-Aus.  You can search for the last 10 years worth 
in the archives at http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/birding-aus/

So, if you want a pelagic off Tasmania to add to your southern sea-bird 
experiences, please let me know.

Chris


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