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Interesting Storm-Petrel From May 27 trip



Dear Carolinabirders,

In going through some images taken with my Canon digital SLR this May, I
found a rather startling picture which includes a small storm-petrel
which looks like it could be Hydrobates pelagicus, the European or
British Storm-Petrel.  I have only one image of the bird which happened
to be in the same frame as a Band-rumped Storm-Petrel which I was
attempting to photograph.  I have posted the image to my
website-http://www.seabirding.com/ on a page where visitors can post
their comments.  To see it, click on the storm-petrel image under news
and features on our opening page.

We still have room on all of our August trips.  This has been the month
for some great rarities off Cape Hatteras-most notably Swinhoe's
Storm-Petrel and Bulwer's Petrel.  Who knows what might be next.

Brian Patteson
Hatteras, NC
brian@patteson.com