Date: 8/5/25 6:40 am From: georgesmccall3 <00001d5057fcf57c-dmarc-request...> Subject: [GABO-L] September 6 Tybee Pelagic
Good morning GABO,
It’s been a while. Hope you are all well.
I have a pelagic birding trip scheduled for September 5-6 (Friday-Saturday) with Reel ‘Em N Deep Sea Fishing Charters out of Tybee Island. We will leave from Lazaretto Creek at 9:00 PM Friday evening and return Saturday evening. We will make our way to Gulf Stream waters overnight and be in the stream at sunrise, spending much of the morning chumming in stream waters. On our way back to Tybee, we will hit two navy towers (likely R3 and R6).
We ran a similar trip in May and had success with Black-capped Petrels, Leach’s Storm-Petrels, and at least one Scopoli’s Shearwater in addition to some more common pelagic species like Bridled Tern, Sargasso Shearwater, Cory's Shearwater, and Wilson’s Storm-Petrel. Trip report here:
For the September trip, I’m planning to improve on our May results: more and oilier chum, more time in the stream, and greater water depth. In addition to birds seen in May, we are hoping for Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, Great Shearwater, Sooty Tern, Pomarine Jaeger, Parasitic Jaeger, and Red-necked Phalarope. September is also an excellent time of year to find rarer migrants like Arctic Tern, Sabine’s Gull, and Long-tailed Jager. Finally, September is historically one of the best months for Masked and Brown Boobies and Brown Noddies on the navy towers.
We have 14 open spots currently (out of 20 total). The final cost will be dependent on the number of attendees, so I can’t give a final figure yet but expect it to be in the neighborhood of $450.
There will be some room to sleep on the deck and I was able to catch a few zs on our way out to the stream in May. Regardless, this will be a fairly strenuous trip with little sleep and lots of sun, so please keep that in mind.
I hope you’ll join us for this expedition to one of the least-known but most exhilarating corners of Georgia birding. Sunrise on the Gulf Stream with arcing pterodroma flight is electric current in the veins.
Please email me at <georgesmccall3...> if you are interested.
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