Our 2024 overnight pelagic trips are now open for registration!
This August, the Brookline Bird Club will be running two back-to-back trips on Saturday-Sunday August 24-25 and then Monday-Tuesday August 26-27. If you have the flexibility to sign up for the weekday August 26-27 trip, please do. The second of the back-to-back trips should have the advantage of advance scouting from the first trip. Please see below for a brief trip description and sign-up links.
Overnight Pelagic Trips from Hyannis, MA to Hydrographer Canyon Area
Join the BBC on the Helen H out of Hyannis, MA to search for pelagic birds on an overnight trip to the Hydrographer Canyon area. We expect to reach warm Gulf Stream influenced waters far offshore to see shearwaters, storm-petrels, jaegers and more! Possible targets include White-faced Storm-petrels, Band-rump Storm-petrel, and Audubon’s Shearwater. A fabulous chance to spend some time at sea looking for seabirds.
Timing: Depart at 6:00am Day 1, return 5:00pm Day 2
Cost: BBC Members: $340.00. Non-members: $380.00.
Capacity: 50 participants each trip [note, the August 24-25th trip is currently 60% full as the BBC is honoring a credit carryover from last year’s cancelled pelagic]. We maintain a waitlist if interest exceeds capacity.
Aug. 24-25 trip registration: BBC Overnight Pelagic Trip from Hyannis MA to Hydrographer Canyon Area (Aug 24-25, 2024)
Aug. 26-27 trip registration: BBC Overnight Pelagic Trip from Hyannis MA to Hydrographer Canyon Area (Aug 26-27, 2024)
The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 275 species for 2023, based upon 200 trips reported from Massachusetts, and those from out of state. We recorded 267 species in Massachusetts, three more than 2022, with 8 additional species reported from New Hampshire and Maine.
The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 276 species for 2022, based upon 204 reported trips. Of those, 264 species were recorded in Massachusetts, with 12 additional species reported from the out-of-state trips to New Hampshire and Maine.
As always, the […]
Brookline Bird Club
2021 Statistical and Year-End Report
By David Scott, Club Statistician
The Brookline Bird Club recorded 270 species for 2021, based upon 206 reported trips. Two-hundred and sixty-five species were recorded in […]
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