A few pics from a trip yesterday over Jeffreys Ledge to Wilkinson Basin. Highlights: Surf Scoter – 12 migrants White-winged Scoter – 2 3 migrants Long-tailed Duck – 2 migrants Leach’s Storm-Petrel – 1 Great Shearwater – 210 Manx Shearwater – 2 Northern Fulmar – 15 Peregrine Falcon – 1 on lighthouse in Ptsmouth Harbor […]
Continue Reading →Star Island trip this Saturday — October 10, 2011
I am looking at Saturday to book the boat for Star Island, so let me know if you are interested. Five spots max., $55pp. The weather gets unsettled Wednesday through Friday, accompanied by a cold front and sharp drop in temps, then clears overnight for a nice day on the island on Saturday (ok, so […]
Continue Reading →Star Island report — October 6, 2011
The recent remarkable fallout of southern migrants on the back of the consistent wet southerlies still persisted on Thursday, but mixed with a large influx of more traditional cold weather October migrants, yielding a great day on Star with some unusual juxtapositions (summer tanager and worm-eating warbler while lapland longspur flies overhead). I will have […]
Continue Reading →Star Island Trips — October and November 2011
I am talking to several boat owners and I may be able to extend the season for Star Island trips, but the boat will be much lower capacity. If I can, I will be running these trips based on weather patterns and not tied to weekends (following frontal movements, radar events etc). Thus trips may […]
Continue Reading →Last Star Trip of 2011 this Friday September 30, 2011
Sue Reynolds is pulling her boat and so Friday is the last trip I am running this year. Please let me know asap as I need a minimum of ten to run. Cost is $45pp, departing dock at 8am and returning to dock at 2pm. Contact me at eric.masterson@myfairpoint.net for info.
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