<div>The yellow bird might have been a western tanager. I've been way out at sea and had them land on the boat to rest...often on passenger shoulders or heads. Dunno about flying 'possums tho' :-)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Staci Kaye-Carr <<a href="mailto:staci@savzsea.com">staci@savzsea.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Whales, opossum and a little yellow bird.....<br>All creatures great and small,<br>Trust Scott Cuzzo best of all!<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br>On 5/5/08 4:36 PM, "Scott Cuzzo" <<a href="mailto:scott@scottcuzzo.com">scott@scottcuzzo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Only the noon trip went today on the Speed Twin<br>><br>
> € two humpbacks, many close views, including a spectacular<br>> simultaneous double breach that nearly all got to see<br>> € a smattering of sea lions<br>> € one tiny yellow bird that sat on my shoulder<br>><br>
> About 25 passengers went out on the noon trip on the Speed Twin. I<br>> love being on the Speed Twin. Big, flat spaces for walking around,<br>> and a friendly crew that seems to really appreciated the naturalists<br>
> on board a ton!<br>><br>> We went out about 9 miles and found two humpbacks that at first<br>> seemed like they were going to be very elusive. Then they appeared<br>> quite close to our boat and seemed quite content to be very close.<br>
> Then all of a sudden a great double breach about 60 yards from the<br>> boat. You could feel the reverberations on the boat. I think<br>> everyone was in the right place to see the breaches. But the one<br>> double breach was it for breaching. But they were content to let us<br>
> follow them for quite a while. As we headed back to port we passed a<br>> couple of other humpbacks but did not stop for them. At one point a<br>> tiny yellow bird, like a finch, but I don't think the wings were<br>
> black, landed right on my shoulder! It surprised me, but I remained<br>> calm and it sat there for a minute or two while everyone took<br>> pictures of it. Obviously not a sea bird and possibly very tired.<br>
> Sort of a fun unusual moment. Everyone had a nice time. There were<br>> people on the boat from Amsterdam, Germany and Mexico, and I think<br>> somewhere else.<br>><br>> And my morning started by me fishing out a baby possum from the<br>
> swimming pool. Very tired and exhausted, water pouring from it's<br>> lungs when I set it down. I gave it a hot water bottle and a very<br>> gentle blow dry and after a few hours it seemed to perk up. I hope<br>
> the "faux hawk" I gave it improved his image with his family.<br>><br>> Scott CUZZO<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list<br>
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