So Cal Pelagic Birding
Pelagic Trips And Deep Water Expeditions

Searcher is a spacious, luxurious 95-foot live-aboard with multiple birding observation decks.  Trips are limited to 28 passengers and 4 leaders to ensure plenty of room.  Guests enjoy 4 clean bathrooms, 2 hot showers and 14 air-conditioned cabins.  Delicious meals, snacks and beverages are included. 

Double Your Pleasure
Double Your FUN
Join Bob Miller For Inland Birding

http://www.zbirdtours.com/socal_sep.htm

As long as you're here in SoCal, make the most of your time with a land birding trip with the famous (infamous?) Bob Miller.  Click the zbirdtours link above to learn more. 

Cost:  $975 includes all meals and beverages including soda, coffee, beer and wine. 

Reserve: Visit Searcher's website or telephone boat owner Celia Condit at (619) 226-2403

Departure point: Fisherman's Landing
2838 Garrison St
San Diego, CA 92106
(619) 221-8500

Finding Rarities and Mega-rarities: 
Expert spotters/leaders and a crew that understands how and why birding is different than fishing greatly increase the odds of finding great birds and ensuring all participants see the birds.  Every trip has a “lifer” rarity for 95% aboard, birds like Dark-rumped (Hawaiian) Petrel, Cooks Petrel, Laysan Albatross, Murphy’s Petrel, Bulwer’s Petrel, Manx and Flesh-footed Shearwater, Fork-tailed Storm-petrel, Xantus’ and Craveri’s Murrelet, both Red-billed and Red-tailed Tropicbird.  Visit the Searcher website for bird lists of every trip since we began in 2003. 

Leaders/Spotters:  Todd McGrath, Paul Guris and Jon Feenstra

Paul Guris paul@paulagics.com Paul is the founder of See Life Paulagics and is a fun guy and expert leader. He is the president of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, the oldest continually operational birding club in North America, is a member of the NJ Rare Birds Committee and is a former member of the Pennsylvania Ornithological Records Committee.  Paul's first experience on salt water was during his mother's third trimester, so he comes by his obsession honestly - he loves the ocean and has been pelagic birding from boats for 30 years (he doesn't SEEM that old!) and has been running his own trips for more than 20 years.  Paul's other interests include fishing, beer, travel, beer, other life forms (non-UFO related) and beer.  With Paul onboard, you're guaranteed to see great birds and HAVE FUN!

Jon Feenstra feenstra@alumni.caltech.edu is a native of Appalachian New Jersey and a life-long outdoors enthusiast. He moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to continue his education and holds a PhD in chemical physics from Caltech. However, since birds are his true passion, he works as a freelance environmental consultant so he can spend every day outside.  His is a co-author, along with Todd McGrath, of the foundational articles in Los Angeles Audubon's journal outlining the current knowledge of seabird distribution in the Southern California Bight. If there's a boat out looking for birds off Southern California,  Jon is on it.

Questions?  Email searcher@bajawhale.com