Ah, so this is pelagic birding
Being back in the US on my own, while the interminable wait for Nikki's visa continues, is mostly somewhat of an annoyance for me. It's nice to be back in some ways of course, but the whole point of getting married was so that we could be together, not stuck in yet another interminable stint of long distance. There are silver linings though, one of them being that living on my own and being stuck in one place means that I can drop what I'm doing and head out on a whim on some birding adventure. That's exactly what I did last weekend, when I got a text from Mollee that she was guiding a Hillstar Nature pelagic birding trip off the coast of Maryland on Sunday. I had never been on a pelagic before, and it's not like I was going to be missing out on any amazing birds back in DC so, well, why not? Pelagics are one of those things that birders do that, if you describe it to a layman, will get you a quizzical look and perhaps some questions about your sanity. Imagine 3...