My 1st PELAGIC Birding Trip!!! (14 Hours at Sea!)

[@darylbernard2616]

Congrats on a successful first pelagic - and no signs of seasickness! I love pelagic birding.

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thanks!! I love pelagic birding too!

[@chatgeo.photos]

Emma - a very good video and narration. You're a natural vlogger!!!

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thanks so much!!

[@nathanwebb4836]

I really enjoyed the video of your pelagic trip. That was wonderful you saw so many birds offshore.

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thanks!

[@benjamingo111]

Love your video Emma!

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thank you!

[@OldWolflad]

Great video Emma, really enjoyed watching that!

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thanks!

[@patrickhanly7458]

Great job young lady. Reminded me of my first pelagic. You are a natural with the camera. One thing: watch having the music volume so much louder then your voice. I had to keep turning it up and down. Keep it up.

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thanks so much!! Yeah, I'm very aware of the issues with the volume... this was before I learned how to adjust the volume when editing, but thanks for the tip.

[@sbutk]

Not had the opportunity yet to take a pelagic trip, though it’s definitely on my bucket list. In the meantime, I absolutely love, love, LOVE your videos. The birds, of course; the exotic destinations; and your alluring personality. Thanks SO much! And please keep them (all of the above) coming, Emma! :)

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.

[@sbutk]

@@emmakoutdoors Absolutely. Perhaps our paths will be fortunate enough to cross somewhere here in NJ one day. I’m heading down to a favorite birding locale later this month, Edwin B. Forsythe NWR. No doubt you’re already familiar with that one.

[@bethjohnson8287]

Great video!

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thank you!!

[@borneozoom4958]

hallo from malaysia emma.. nice vlog i like it.. nice birding view.

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thank you!

[@charliestreets8018]

Really enjoyed your video Emma, it felt as if I was there with you. You've inspired me to go on a pelagic, I'm hopefully moving to the Yorkshire coast soon (England) where they run trips so fingers crossed.

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thanks so much!! Hope you got/get to go on a pelagic - they're so fun!

[@birdman5223]

WOW😃

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thanks!

[@geckoguy4141]

Incredible video! I'm still currently on the look out for Black legged kittiwake, northern fulmar, and Audubon shearwater myself. As a fellow NJ resident, I highly recommend looking into the Cape May Whale Watch's pelagic tours. You can see so many scoters and eiders with them this time of year as well as phalaropes and jaegers if you're lucky too! If you don't mind me asking, what pelagic tour company was this one in the video? I had no idea that there were pelagic tours out of Point Pleasant. I live much closer to Point than I do Cape May so it would be much easier for me instead of the 80 mile drive south lol

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thanks so much! I've heard of those trips! Definitely planning on going on one of those at some point in the future - pelagic birding is so fun! I went out with Paulagics, here's their website: paulagics.com I highly recommend going out with them - they do some really awesome trips! I have friends who've gone on 18 and 32 hour trip summer trips with them and said they were awesome too. Good birding!!

[@geckoguy4141]

@@emmakoutdoors That sounds awesome! I'll look into them then. Thank you, keep up the amazing content!

[@emmakoutdoors]

@@geckoguy4141 No problem. Thanks for views and comments! I'm glad you enjoy the content - I'm definitely gonna keep it going!

[@ickgtib]

maybe I'm a bit too late but what are the rest of the gulls in that flock?

[@mjgbirder]

Cool video, I love pelagic birding too :-) I’ve just had a quick look at a screenshot of the Iceland Gull. The darkish tips to some of the primaries made me wonder if it might the Kumlien’s Gull race / sub-species...(?) Do you know if that is the usual sub-species off NJ? M

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thanks - pelagic birding is so fun! Kumlien's is the more common sub-species of Iceland Gull in NJ, as opposed to Thayer's. There was some debate as to which this was. The consensus seemed to be a some-what dark Kumlien's.

[@mjgbirder]

Thanks Emma, that’s interesting:-) In Britain at least 95% of the Iceland Gulls we get are of the white wing tipped nominate form. I’ve seen a couple of Kumlien’s Gulls in Britain. There have been about 6 Thayer’s Gulls in Britain, though I didn’t see any of them. The taxonomy is rather complicated and messy isn’t it when it comes to Kumlien’s and Thayer’s... M

[@timomanger8454]

pretty cool! where is this? greetings from mexico:)

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thanks! Greetings from the US! This was off the East coast of USA.

[@birbcall5778]

really fun video! i went on my firts pelagic trip last year and i really can relate with the excitement you had! XD. i just got one question, from wich country did you go? US or UK?, im going on my second pelagic trip this september, fingers crossed for those fulmars and shearwaters! XD

[@emmakoutdoors]

Thanks - glad you liked the video! I went out from the US. Good luck on your pelagic!

[@SkyWalk27]

Where was this tour?

[@emmakoutdoors]

Out of southern NJ!