Kimberley Birdwatchings 2015 Ashmore Reef trip; Reminder & Advertisement

George Swann’s Kimberley Birdwatching’s 8 day/7 night annual trip to Ashmore still has several vacancies that need to be filled to make this year’s trip viable. It will run about a week later than in recent years and will take a different route. We leave from Broome early on 30 October and follow last year’s two-and-a-day sailing route to Ashmore Reef on which we saw ~500 Swinhoe’s Storm-Petrels and a Heinroth’s Shearwater among the more usual pelagic birds. After three days on the reef observing migrant shorebirds, breeding seabirds and searching for vagrants, we head south-east to Browse Island, one of the more remote and northerly islands in Western Australia. After an early morning ashore there where we hope to find more vagrants we commence our 32 hour journey back to Broome arriving late evening on the eighth day. George’s email is info@kimberleybirdwatching.com.au and his phone numbers are (08) 9192 1246 and mobile 0429 706 800 Mike Carter, 03 9787 7136 30 Canadian Bay Road Mount Eliza, VIC 3930, Australia