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Our Oct 2006 Pelagic was alot of fun with over 75 Black-footed Albatross sighted, some of them honking and calling while scrapping over fish right beside the boat. We saw good numbers of shearwaters with Sooty, Pink-footed, Flesh-footed and Buller's Shearwaters recorded.Good mixture of gulls with Western, Thayer's, Heerman's, California, Black-legged Kittiwakes, and a rare Slaty-backed Gull from Asia!

On our way home a group of Dall's Porpoise raced our boat and a Humpback Whale waved goodbye with his huge tail out of the water.

Our Sept 12th 2007 Pelagic tour turned out to be a nice birthday present for one of our participants, Sabina Clarke. She and the other birders had great looks at the Buller's Shearwater, many Black-footed Albatross and the Fork-tailed Storm Petrels danced on the water as they visited our boat. Other species seen included Pomarine Jaeger, Sabine's Gull, Cassin's Auklet, Northern Fulmar, Pink-footed and Sooty Shearwaters. Sabina was happy to add her namesake the Sabine's Gull to her lifelist. Her comments on the trip can be seen on our commentary section.

It cannot be overemphasized too much how weather dependent these trips are. When the ocean swells are 2 to 3 metres it is pretty rough for a long trip offshore so we don't go. Swells must be at least less than 2 metres before a tour will go. Cancellation due to weather results in a full refund of deposits.

Rare Sighting of Prothonotory Warbler near Long Beach, Tofino. BC's second record Trumpeter Swan Pink-footed Shearwater Seen on Pelagic Tour 1 250 725-2520 Just Birding P.O. Box 990, Tofino, BC. V0R 2Z0 Click here if Navigation buttons are missing.	2004 Highlights:
	Yellow Wagtail Lark Bunting Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Mockingbird Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Long-billed Curlew Brown Pelican Black-footed Albatross Xantus's Murrelet Buller's Shearwater
	2005 Highlights: Sabine’s Gull Northern Fulmar Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Lapland Longspur Sandhill Crane Mockingbird Vaux’s Swift Cassin’s Auklet Black Swift	Brown Pelican South Polar Skua Leach’s Storm Petrel Black-footed Albatross Pink-footed Shearwater Baird’s Sandpiper Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Great Egret Palm Warbler Anna's Hummingbird
	2006 Highlights: Say’s Phoebe: March 2006 Pacific Golden Plover: April 2006 Tree Sparrow: April 2006 Vesper Sparrow: April 2006 Common Grackle: May 2006 Sandhill Crane: May 2006 Townsend’s Solitaire: May 2006 Lark Sparrow: June 2006 Brown Pelican: June 2006	Chestnut-sided Warbler: June 2006 Ancient Murrelet: July 2006 Horned Puffin: July 2006 Brown Thrasher: Sept 2006 Black-footed Albatross: Oct 2006 Buller’s Shearwater: Oct 2006 Thayer’s Gull: Oct 2006 Slaty-backed Gull: Oct 2006
	Early Bird & Paddle with Eagles Checklist The following is a list of bird species seen on both Early Bird and Paddle with Bird tours. These two trips often offer both land and water birding so the two lists are combined.
	Red Throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Western Grebe Sooty Shearwater Brandt's Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Great-blue Heron Great Egret Greater White-fronted Goose Canada Goose Brant Trumpeter Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Widgeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Common Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Blue Grouse Ruffed Grouse Black-bellied Plover Pacific Golden Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Black Oystercatcher Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wandering Tattler Whimbrel Marbled Godwit Black Turnstone Surfbird Red Knot Sanderling Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Rock Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Heermann's gull Mew Gull California Gull Herring Gull Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull	Caspian Tern Common Murre Pigeon Guillemot Marbled Murrelet Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove Screech Owl Great-Horned Owl Northern Pigmy Owl Barred Owl Vaux's Swift Rufous Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-breasted Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Three-toed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Hammond's Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Warbling Vireo Gray Jay Stellar's Jay Northwestern Crow Common Raven Purple Martin Tree Swallow Violet-Green Swallow Barn Swallow Chestnut-backed Chickadee Brown Creeper Winter Wren Sedge Wren American Dipper Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Townsend's Solitaire Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush Starling Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Townsend's Warbler Prothonotory Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Western Tanager Spotted Towhee Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Harris's Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Brewer's Blackbird Purple Finch Red Crossbill Pine Siskin American Goldfinch House Sparrow
	Seabird Voyage: Bird species seen on our seabird voyage (Cleland Island) tours this year are as follows.
	Pacific Loon Common Loon Sooty Shearwater Brandt's Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Brown Pelican Brant Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle Black Oystercatcher Surfbird Black Turnstone Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler	Whimbrel Mew Gull California Gull Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Bonapartes's Gull Common Murre Pigeon Guillemot Marbled Murrelet Ancient Murrelet Cassins's Auklet Rhinoceros Auklet Tufted Puffin Horned Puffin
	Black-footed Albatross vying for a fish during a Pelagic tour this fall.
	Pelagic Tours: The following species have been seen from Tofino on Pelagic tours: Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Northern Fulmar Mottled Petrel Pink-footed Shearwater Flesh-footed Shearwater Buller's Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Short-tailed Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater Fork-tailed Petrel
	Leach's Storm- Petrel South Polar Skua Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Sabine's Gull Slaty-backed Gull and Thayer's Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Common Murre Thick-billed Murre	Pigeon Guillemot Marbled Murrelet Ancient Murrelet Xantus's Murrelet Cassin's Auklet Crested Auklet Parakeet Auklet Rhinocerous Auklet Tufted Puffin Horned Puffin
	Our Oct 2006 Pelagic was alot of fun with over 75 Black-footed Albatross sighted, some of them honking and calling while scrapping over fish right beside the boat. We saw good numbers of shearwaters with Sooty, Pink-footed, Flesh-footed and Buller's Shearwaters recorded.Good mixture of gulls with Western, Thayer's, Heerman's, California, Black-legged Kittiwakes, and a rare Slaty-backed Gull from Asia! On our way home a group of Dall's Porpoise raced our boat and a Humpback Whale waved goodbye with his huge tail out of the water. Our Sept 12th 2007 Pelagic tour turned out to be a nice birthday present for one of our participants, Sabina Clarke. She and the other birders had great looks at the Buller's Shearwater, many Black-footed Albatross and the Fork-tailed Storm Petrels danced on the water as they visited our boat. Other species seen included Pomarine Jaeger, Sabine's Gull, Cassin's Auklet, Northern Fulmar, Pink-footed and Sooty Shearwaters. Sabina was happy to add her namesake the Sabine's Gull to her lifelist. Her comments on the trip can be seen on our commentary section. It cannot be overemphasized too much how weather dependent these trips are. When the ocean swells are 2 to 3 metres it is pretty rough for a long trip offshore so we don't go. Swells must be at least less than 2 metres before a tour will go. Cancellation due to weather results in a full refund of deposits.
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