Just got back from an 11 day trip to the Carolinas. Spent about 60 hours on pelagic trips, trying for some of my "target" species and maybe some rarities, if I were lucky. Hoped to get three (Herald Petrel, Fea's Petrel, and either White-tailed or Red-billed Tropicbird). As many people know, there are two tour groups that run trips out of Manteo (Nag's Head) and Hatteras, in parallel. I mostly seemed to be on the wrong boats at the right time. Fea's and White-tailed TB were seen on the "other" boats. On trip #5 (6/6), we did get a light morph Herald Petrel and on trip #6 (6/7), we saw the dark and intermediate morph Heralds. BTW ... no Bermuda Petrels, Bulwer's Petrels, nor Swinhoe's Storm-Petrels either !!! This is what keeps us coming back ... I guess!!! Phil ================================================ Phil Davis home: PDavis@ix.netcom.com Davidsonville, Maryland USA work: PDavis@OAO.com Greenbelt, Maryland USA ================================================