Seabirding – Excellence in Pelagic Birding

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Seabird Diversity

Listing of species seen for each two week period that we run trips from Hatteras,...

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Black-capped Petrel

Learn more about our Gulf Stream signature species and why it is possible this could...

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Gulf Stream Trips

Spring 2020 Schedule Spring Blitz: DAILY trips May 27 – June 1st June 4, 5,...

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Sunday September 13, 2020 - Shelf Life - by Kate Sutherland September 16, 2020
Our hopes were very high going into our trips over the weekend, winds had been marching across the Atlantic all week! Who knows what they might carry over to us? We met at the dock Saturday morning, Brian checking the conditions offshore one more time before heading out, and the wind and waves were much […]
September 5 & 6, 2020 - Beehives - by, Kate Sutherland September 9, 2020
This weekend we went from slick calm on Saturday morning to the high seas on Sunday with northeasterly winds up to 20 mph with higher gusts! There were birds feeding up on the shelf Saturday morning, so we had our first Black-caps in about 160 feet of water! We also found a number of shearwaters […]
August 28 & 29, 2020 - by Kate Sutherland September 1, 2020
Wind was present for us this past Friday and Saturday...perhaps a bit more so on Saturday when we had to shorten our time in the deep to make it back inshore before it really started howling! We thought we saw shearwaters on our last set of trips?? We blew those counts away on Friday! There […]
August 21 & 22, 2020 - Blue Planet Special - by Kate Sutherland August 25, 2020
Wow. These were two days of incredible variety, differing conditions, and a lot of life offshore! Both days had some rain and clouds, but also some sun, so we finally had those gorgeous sunrises we love to see on our way out in the morning! Both days also found little current offshore in the deep, […]
August 15, 2020 - by, Kate Sutherland August 17, 2020
Westerlies are not something we look forward to...many times birds are pushed farther offshore and might not be hungry enough or close enough to follow the scent trail to our boat. We've had some west winds this summer and while Friday had some brisk southwest winds (and a lot of heat filled storms offshore...so many […]