Dear Friends, The Hartford Audubon Society is running a unique 40-mile once-only "mini-pelagic" bird-fish-plankton trip in LIS Long Island Sound on saturday March 9th. If you might be interested, all the details can be found at this website... https://sites.google.com/view/lisgullsplanktontrip/home This is a trip for you, IF you like going into LIS waters which are usually not accessed by birders, with 35 other expert birders and top marine scientists, on a new $2.7million 63-foot QUIET stable hybrid-electric luxurious catamaran research vessel from the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. We are aiming for this trip to get lots of great birds (Little Gull? skua???) and to determine what those thousands of gulls are feeding on offshore. We intend to find these large flocks, cruise into these flocks slowly, get very close to these birds, and learn more about what they are feasting on, using binoculars, cameras, plankton nets, underwater video, onboard microscope displays, etc. One way or another, this will be a memorable one-of-a-kind cruise in LIS. To register please: 1) immediately email to : robben99@gmail.com . 2) Please pay $80 by check by February 9th. Full DETAILS at this website above, including a recent Jan.27 video at Long Beach, showing the gull flocks starting to build up to their massive numbers in March . Please contact me SOON, since we believe this ship will fill up its quota of 35 very rapidly , in a few days . Best regards, Tom Robben