Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 20:27:06 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mary Gustafson Subject: Paulagics, April 12 Pelagic Lewes DE Comments: To: de-birds@princeton.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just heard from Paul Guris at See Life Paulagics that he has been having trouble with his email addresses, info@paulagics.com and paul@paulagics.com. Mail sent to these addresses has been bouncing. If you have recently (within the past week or so) tried to contact SLP please RESEND your message to paulagics@netscape.net. The web page at www.paulagics.com is up. The April 12 pelagic on the roomy 85' Thelma Dale IV needs more participants to go. This trip is a late addition to the calendar. The trip will be searching for migrating mackerel and herring and other fish, which are moving offshore in huge numbers at this time. This is an experimental trip in the sense that we don't have a good idea what birds we are likely to see but we know that there is a lot of food out there for the birds. Fulmar and Puffin can linger to Memorial Day or early June offshore, but we don't know what other alcids may linger into April. We hope to find Manx Shearwater and/or Great Skua. This is a great time of year for whales, and while the trip is for birding purposes the whales are of interest as well, with several species possible. 30 people are needed to make this trip a go and we're over half way there. If you're interested, please contact Paulagics at the email above. Lastly, if anyone has photographs or video of either murre from the March 15 trip could you please email me at live4birds@aol.com or (once the email is up) mary@paulagics.com. Calm seas! Mary Gustafson ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================