Date: 8/30/25 7:22 am From: Peter Pyle via groups.io <ppyle...> Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Noyo Pelagics trips September 5th, 7th, 8th
Greetings Bay Area -
We still have some spaces available on all three of these trips. The current forecast is for calm seas on all three dates so we should be able to make it well off shore, especially during the full-day trip on the 7th. Warmer ocean water is currently moving in, and fishing boats are currently bringing in 100s of albacore.
Reports from these fishing boats over the past two weeks indicate a lot of marine productivity: whales, dolphins, and swarms of shearwaters accompanying them, and we'll be looking through these flocks for rarer shearwater species. On August 17th we had a 15' white shark breach right in front of the boat and during a fishing trip last week our captain videotaped one of similar size in clear water circling under the boat. Storm-petrels and murrelets should be easy to find under these favorable conditions. We will be able to put out 1-2 slicks on the half-day trips (5th and 8th) and 3-4 of the full-day trip in hopes of attracting storm-petrels and Pterodroma. Birding for shorebird and landbird migrants and vagrants along the magnificent Mendocino coast is also picking up.
