Sunday, September 20, 2009

Birds at the moment

Morning

I thought i would write breifly on what birds of note we have spotted lately on our Albatross Encounter tours (www.albatrossencounter.co.nz). We have seen our usual plethera of albatross species (the record is still 10 in one day) but 2 days ago we saw an Antarctic Fulmar http://nzbirds.com/birds/fulmararctic.html which was only the third we have seen this year, this is something of a concern as the numbers of the Antarctic fulmars are well down on previous years.

On a more positive note we have seen quite a few white morphs of the southern giant petrel http://nzbirds.com/birds/giantpetrel.html which is always a welcome visitor.

Albatross Encounter on Twitter!

Hi All

You can now follow daily (or every few days depending on whats occuring!) tweets from our twitter feed. https://twitter.com/AlbatrossEnc

If this seems like a foriegn language to you twitter is a great way to get regular updates or to chat about what you have seen lately or if you are planning any trips to Kaikoura let us know.

Many thanks

Alex