Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:14:05 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Armas Hill Subject: Pelagic Birding Trip (DE & MD waters) Labor Day Weekend Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Dear MD Birders: Only 11 places remain available on our all-day pelagic birding trip from LEWES, DELAWARE, on Saturday, August 30. The trip will be on the "Skipjack", to waters offshore from Delaware and Maryland (to the Wilmington & Baltimore Canyons). Departure will be at 4am, to be offshore at a prime-time in the morning, and return will be by 4pm. In recent years, birds that have been seen in late August during FONT pelagic trips from Lewes have included: Cory's Shearwater, Greater Shearwater, Audubon's Shearwater, Wilson's Storm-Petrel, Pomarine Jaeger, Long-tailed Jaeger, South Polar Skua, Black Tern, and Bridled Tern. The price for the trip from Lewes is $110 per person. In our website www.focusonnature.com , there are excerpts from an interesting article in the most-recent DOS (Delmarva Ornithological Society) publication regarding pelagic bird sightings in offshore Delaware and Maryland waters. You might check it out in our Pelagic Bulletins Link. Including our latest pelagic trip from Lewes (on May 31, 2003), South Polar Skuas have been seen on 4 consecutive trips. For reservations please contact FONT (Focus On Nature Tours) to reserve your place, by e-mail at: font@focusonnature.com, or by fax at 302-529-1085, or by phone either at 302-529-1876 or toll-free at: 1-800-721-9986. Further information about the pelagic trip is in the FONT web-site at: www.focusonnature.com We hope you'll decide to join us this Labor Day Weekend! Wishing you good birding, Armas Hill Focus On Nature Tours, Inc. Wilmington, DE, USA e-mail: armas@focusonnature.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================