16 August 2025 Report

OVERVIEW

Fine, some cloud. 18C. 12 knot westerly winds, increasing. Seas to 1m. 20.2C sea surface temperatures. At the drift the current carried us some 5km westward against the westerly winds.

Oddities seen out to seas included a flock of Rock Doves around 15km offshore and an Eastern Curlew some 7km offshore. The first of the Wedge-tailed Shearwaters have started to return.

BIRD LIST

(Note that the numbers in parentheses represent the approximate maximum number of that species in view at one time)

Brown Skua	1
Silver Gull	35
White-fronted Tern	4	(3)
Greater Crested Tern	14
Antipoden Albatross (Gibson's)	1
Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross	1
Shy Albatross	2
Black-browed Albatross	14
Wilson's Storm Petrel	1
Northern Giant Petrel	1
Grey-faced Petrel	1
Providence Petrel	17
Wedge-tailed Shearwater	6	(2)
Hutton's Shearwater	6
Fluttering-type Shearwaters	6
Australasian Gannet	21

OTHER

Humpback Whale
Long-nosed Fur Seal

The next Sydney pelagic trip is scheduled for Saturday 23rd August 2025 departing from Mosman at 6.45am and Double Bay at 7.00am.
All information on our trips including dates and contact details can be found on the website at sydneypelagics.info
Book at contact@sydneypelagics.info
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(Photographs Sooraj Sekhar and Greg McLachlan).

Sooraj Sekhar
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