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Index of Subjects Lois - tide and time of day don't matter too much. Luck counts for a lot. You can narrow the odds by going on one of the whale cruises (Mariner Cruises or Brier Island Whale and Seabird Cruises) from Westport from about mid August on through September. Fulmars are off and on again in summer - this summer may be one of the on ones. Parasitic and especially Pomarine Jaegers are regular but not abundant. Occasionally they are seen from Northern Point or Western Light on Brier. Don't count on seeing Cory's Shearwater off Brier Island (Chebucto Head in November may be a better bet!) - it is a warm-water offshore species and has not been reliably documented from waters off Brier. South Polar Skua is a possibility almost anytime in August or September - but not a species one can count on. On Saturday I asked the naturalist on one of the whale cruises how often a season, on average, she saw a Skua - she said about 5 times. That works out to about one every two weeks. Most of us who go to sea regularly off Brier have seen the species there - but always unexpectedly. It's a bit of a lottery seabird-watching from or off Brier - most of the time you come up with nothing (which means the usual shearwaters and storm-petrels) - and then once in a while you hit paydirt. That 's a realistic assessment, I think. Eric On 13 Jun 2010 at 20:18, Lois Codling wrote: > Could anyone tell me which tides and which times of day are better for > spotting pelagic birds off Briar Is.? We are particularly interested in > seeing: N. Fulmar, Pomarine and Parasitic Jaegers, Cory's Shearwater, S. > Polar Skua. > Thanks a lot! > Lois Codling >
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