17 April 2026 Report

OVERVIEW

Fine, some cloud cover, 26C. <10 knot westerly winds, increasing. Seas <0.5m. Sea surface temperatures 23.7C.

BIRD LIST

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

Silver Gull	40
Greater Crested Tern	8	(3)
Little Penguin	1	(1)
Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross	1
Shy Albatross	1	(1)
Black-browed Albatross	2	(1)
Campbell Albatross	1
Wilson's Storm Petrel	27	(23)
Providence Petrel	5	(2)
Flesh-footed Shearwater	56	(50)
Wedge-tailed Shearwater	38	(35)
Sooty Shearwater	1
Hutton's Shearwater	1	(1)
Fluttering-type Shearwaters	1
Australasian Gannet	8	(2)

OTHER

Inshore Bottlenose Dolphin
Dwarf minke
Flyingfish

The next Sydney pelagic trip is scheduled for Saturday 9 May 2026 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
You can also find us on Facebook and post photos at https://www.facebook.com/sydneypelagics

(Photographs Bay Amelia Reeson, Marie Lister, Zihe Wang and Greg McLachlan).

Bay Amelia Reeson
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