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Hola,
 
Brian Patteson asked me if I'd forward this note to the listserv regarding  
the 5 March trip scheduled to go out of Virginia Beach, one of only two  
scheduled for this winter in Virginia.  Contact Brian directly if you are  
interested.
 
From Brian:
 
 
> Dear Seabirders,
>
> Though our Feb. 26(27) pelagic trip  from Virginia Beach is now full,
> we still need about 10 more  participants in order to run the March
5(6)
> trip.  As usual, I  am willing to run the trip at cost, but I cannot
> afford to take a loss  on it.  I've just returned from the Southern
> Ocean, so I haven't  been offshore here for a while, but recent coastal
> sightings indicate a  significant incursion of alcids with good numbers
> of Razorbills as far  south as Georgia, and Dovekie and Thick-billed
> Murre seen all the way to  South Carolina.  A recent nearshore trip
from
> New Jersey found  only 16 large alcids, but four of these were
> Thick-billed Murres!   March is usually excellent for puffins off
> Virginia, with double digit  counts being the norm, and we have seen
> Dovekies by the hundreds some  years.  While Great Skua is usually
> scarce, it has been seen on the  majority of our trips, and March is
> prime time for a vagrant albatross  if we were to be so lucky again.  I
> must stress that this is an  exceptional year for alcids, and with more
> daylight in March we will be  able to look out for them inshore as well
> as offshore.
>
> I  hope that some of you can join us for this trip.  For more
>  information, please visit our website at http://www.seabirding.com/ or
>  give me a call at (252) 986-1363.  Also on our website is our  schedule
> of spring trip for 2005.  I hope to soon add some summer  dates, and
> maybe some photos from this weekend's Hatteras  trip.
>
> Brian Patteson
> Hatteras,  NC
>patteson1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 

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