From Pacific to Prairie and Pole to Pole

Because it was such great weather, we did all of our birds observations from the flying bridge! In April, we were confined to the regular bridge for a couple especially-rough transects. This upper deck had plenty of seats and was great for spotting birds, whales, mola molas and sharks! And scenery of course. It also had a handy GPS display, so we could enter all the necessary data for our bird observations. The flying bridge was also the most popular place for mid-station naps and eating saltines.

On the very first day, a Wilson’s Warbler landed on the flying bridge! Neither Dr. K, Augie, or I saw it as we were busy with net tows on the back deck, but the poor songbird was lost at sea!