Sea Watch, Friday November 6, 2009

The day started off chilly as I arrived early to prepare for a potential big day. Well, it was a good number day (the largest of the season so far), but it was not a "big day." Since today was not a big day I am beginning accept that there might not be a big day this season at all, and that the big day is being split into several smaller day.

The weather called for high winds out of the NW, and it came, which pushed a lot of the birds far out to sea.

It was a good number day with over 22,000 scoter moving through, and over 1,000 Red-throated Loons. We had another sighting of a Harlequin Duck and a King Eider today, and we had our first Mute Swans (everyones' favorite bird) of the season. Of further note, today we broke the Sea Watch Common Eider record in a season with coming 71 individuals counted today putting our seasonal count of COEI to 229 birds.

Here is a list of bird seen today:

Brant (Atlantic) 26
Wood Duck 36
American Black Duck 10
Northern Pintail 8
Green-winged Teal 144
Lesser Scaup 3
Scaup sp. 28
King Eider 1
Common Eider 71
Harlequin 1
Surf Scoter 4090
White-winged Scoter 28
Black Scoter 8803
dark-winged scoter sp. 11359
Long-tailed Duck 12
Buffelhead 11
Red-breasted Merganser 12
Red-throated Loon 1463
Common Loon 14
Northern Gannet 1096
Double-crested Cormorant 868
Great Egret 23
Snowy Egret 2
Laughing Gull 83
Ring-billed Gull 59
Herring Gull 27
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Forster's Tern 67
Royal Tern 7
American Oystercatcher 6
Mute Swan 4
Horned Grebe 1

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