Sea Watch, Friday, October 23, 2009

Today the morning started off with a beautiful sunrise over the calm waters and Gannets already moving and diving. As the day progressed the wind picked up and the sea started to turn.

The Surf Scoter were out in number today with 15,000 plus rallying to move south; a much greater number than the Black Scoter (~1500). The Gannets also had another big day with ~4600.

We also had a good waterbird diversity with King Eider, Red-breasted Mergansers, American Wigeon, Wood Duck, American Black Duck, Mallards, Northern Shoveler, Pintail, Great Scaup, Green-winged Teal, Brant, Pelicans, and both Loon species.

Below is a list of birds seen today:

Brant 3
American Black Duck 10
Wood Duck 4
Mallard 3
Northern Shoveler 1
Pintail 12
Green-winged Teal 212
King Eider 1
Surf Scoter 15,233
Black Scoter 1558
White-winged Scoter 7
dark-winged scoter sp. 265
Red-throated Loon 107
Common Loon 17
Brown Pelican 3
Northern Gannet 4,812
Double-crested Cormorant 2531
Great Cormorant 2
Laughing Gull 136
Ring-billed Gull 27
Herring Gull 59
Great Black-backed Gull 94
Forster's Tern 47
Royal Tern 44
Parasitic Jaegar 3

Now wether tomorrow will be the "Big Day," who can say?

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