Date: 8/24/25 9:53 pm From: nlethaby via groups.io <nlethaby...> Subject: [venturacobirding] Sep 5 pelagic to Santa Barbara Island Booby colony
All,
The second Island Packers pelagic (9 hours) of the fall to the SBI booby colony will be on Sep 5 heading out of Ventura. The August trip had both Blue-footed and Masked Boobies in with the Cocos (Brown) Booby colony. En route, we saw a nice selection of other pelagic species including Leach’s, Ashy, Black and Least Storm-petrels, Buller’s Shearwater, Skua and both Craveri’s and Scripps’s Murrelets. The trip report is at https://ebird.org/tripreport/404650
Additional species (e.g. LT and Pomarine Jaegers) will be likely in September along this route.
There is another Island Packers pelagic on Sep 7 that will be a 12-bour trip. Dave Pereksta will post more details on this but it will not go to the booby colony..
Please contact Island Packers to book these trips. The trip is visible on-line at https://islandpackers.com/book-wildlife/. For any questions on routes/possible birds, feel free to email me.
Nick Lethaby Goleta, CA <nlethaby...> +1 805 284 6200
