Date: 4/8/13 4:53 am
From: Gail B. Mackiernan %<3Ckatahdinss...>%3E <katahdinss...>
Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Extralimital: Birding on a Cruise Ship
My husband and I have been birding from cruise ships for a decade -- a great way to see pelagic species and also, have visits (albeit short ones) to some exotic ports. Last year we took a cruise ship from Baltimore to Nova Scotia and from it added some new birds to our MD lists, including Sabine's gull and Band-rumped storm-petrel. In 2011 we went from Alaska to Korea and en route, saw 25 Solander's (Providence) Petrels in off Attu which turned out to be the first for USA. So lots of opportunities. Just a matter of picking the right route, right dates and the right ship, Holland-America is best for seawatching as you can get right out onto the bow deck and scan with your scopes. The stability of these large ships means use of scopes is as easy as on the land. You do get a lot of questions from the other passengers though!

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD

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From: "Fred Burggraf" <fburggraf0625...>
To: "mdbirding" <mdbirding...>
Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2013 10:22:31 PM
Subject: [MDBirding] Extralimital: Birding on a Cruise Ship











My wife and I just returned from a week aboard Royal Caribbean's "Oasis of the Seas," the world's largest cruise ship. Our ports of call included Haiti, Jamaica and Cozumel, and during each stop we birded as we could (this was not by any stretch a birding tour) and got a few nice birds with an endemic or so thrown in.
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