Products

Bremer Bay Bird Expedition

From AUD $225.00

Duration: 8 Hours (approx.)
Location: Bremer Bay, WA
Product code: P11KUW

This December we will run four
birdwatching trips out to the Bremer Canyon with experienced seabird guides.
This is a rare opportunity to use Naturaliste Charter’s whale watching
catamaran, the Alison Maree, before the Orca tour season resumes.

The Bremer Canyon is rightly
famous for the spectacular Orca viewing throughout the Summer and Autumn, but
the birding can be just as exciting! The trips will head out to the Bremer
Canyon targeting pelagic seabirds and hoping for a different assemblage to the
Orca trips. This is a new
time of year for dedicated seabird trips to the canyon, but there are many
records from the Orca trips. Species we have a good chance of seeing include
Wandering (Snowy and Gibson's), Indian Yellow-nosed, Black-browed (inc. a
chance of Campbell ssp. impavida) and Shy Albatrosses, Great-winged and
Soft-plumaged Petrels, Flesh-footed, Short-tailed and Hutton's Shearwaters, and
Wilson's and White-faced Storm-Petrels.

We will also be hoping to see
some of the passage migrants including South Polar Skua, Black-bellied
Storm-Petrel, Arctic Tern, and large numbers of Wilson's Storm-Petrels. Furthermore,
if we are lucky enough that the Orca have made a kill, the large oily slicks
generated from these predation events can attract hundreds, sometimes even
thousands, of seabirds to feast on the scraps.

We also hope to have some luck
with rarities as always; Amsterdam and Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses, Great
Shearwater, and Grey Petrel have all been recorded on Orca tours in December.
There is also a chance of cetaceans, such as Sperm Whale, Blue Whale, Long-finned
Pilot Whales, Orca, and other dolphin species.
However, please note that these trips are not Orca tours - while there
is a chance of Orca, we will not be targeting them so if your main target is
Orca we'd recommend booking onto an Orca tour instead.

Other oceanic wildlife
semi-regularly recorded on these trips includes sunfish, Blue Sharks, various
whaler and hammerhead sharks, Long-nosed Fur Seals, and Australian Sea Lions
(we will stop to check the small colony on Glasse Island on the way back in).

For any visiting birders,
Bremer Bay is a great birding location with exciting species such as Western
Whipbirds, Western Fieldwrens, Red-eared Firetails, Hooded Plovers, Brush
Bronzewings, Southern Emu-wrens and Rock Parrots all occurring around the outskirts
of town. In addition, Malleefowl, Purple-gaped and White-eared Honeyeaters,
Southern Scrub-Robin, Shy Heathwren, Blue-breasted Fairywren, and Regent
Parrots are all regular on half-day outings from Bremer. And most south-west
endemics can be readily targeted on the drive from Perth to Bremer and back.
Feel free to check-in with the pelagic leaders for details on sites to try for
these birds.

These trips will be guided by
Dan Mantle, Plaxy Barratt, John Graff, and Stu Ford. They are very
knowledgeable seabird guides who have considerable experience running seabird
trips in Western Australia. They will be helping to point out any interesting seabirds
or cetaceans that we come across.

Meeting Time: 7.00am for a 7.15 am departure.
(Duration: Approximately 8 hours).

Departure Point: Bremer Bay Harbour at the end of
Swarbrick Rd, Bremer Bay.

Map Link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GvkCtASzLhCTF71M9

Please bring your own lunch and snacks.

Inclusions