Bodega Bay Pelagic Trip with Lucas Stephenson and Captain Rick Powers – Sunday, November 23rd 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

This year’s Banner Bodega Pelagic Trips: We have had good luck this season finding 6 Storm-Petrels, including Leach’s and Tristram’s, 6 Shearwaters including Manx, Short-tailed, and Flesh-footed. Skuas, Jaegers, Tufted Puffins, Fulmars and Sabine’s Gulls have been appearing on most trips. Most recently, 3 Albatross including multiple Laysan and one Waved! The Waved is the first ABA Record and First Northern Pacific Record.

Given this streak of luck, we thought it would be wise to run a November trip. We’ve reserved a boat with Captain Rick Powers for Sunday, November 23rd out of Bodega Bay. We’ll be gunning it for the Cordell Bank and the Continental Shelf. Potential November targets are Short-Tailed Albatross, Parakeet Auklet, and Mottled Petrel.

Pricing: Captain Rick has asked us to take a maximum of 35 birders so this will require us to increase prices slightly in order to break even. The trip will be co-sponsored by Napa-Solano Audubon and Bodega Bay Sports Fishers and will cost $200. The reduced numbers of birders along the rail should make viewing any ranties easier.

This is a late Fall trip which may have rougher seas and fewer pelagic birds.