Sea Watch Monday September 28, 2009

In line with the hot-and-cold nature of the seawatch, the first two-plus hours of the day saw over 1200 individuals counted, but that number dropped off to only 49 counted during the last 9 hours. Double-crested Cormorants were the big movers of the morning, and migratory Laughing Gulls were detected for the first tme this season. I found out this Laughing Gull movement was evident well offshore too, after talking to Glen Davis (who was on a boat on the ocean) a bit later in the morning.
Non-waterbird notables were an American Pipit, and 2 Northern Flickers motoring in from off the ocean, the second of which was seen at around 12:30 PM (it must have been very far offshore).

eBird list follows
(Migrant waterbirds in bold):

Brant (Atlantic) 1
Northern Shoveler 2
Surf Scoter 1
Black Scoter 19
Common Loon 2
Northern Gannet 11
Brown Pelican 3
Double-crested Cormorant 1173
Great Blue Heron 3

Osprey 3
Peregrine Falcon 2
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 150
Laughing Gull 34
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull 75
Caspian Tern 3
Common Tern 8

Forster's Tern 80
Royal Tern 10
jaeger sp. 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2
Tree Swallow 50
American Robin 2
American Pipit 1
Cedar Waxwing 1
Northern Cardinal X
House Finch 2
House Sparrow 10

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