Sea Watch, Sunday November 29, 2009

Today was very good; we had a strong flight of Gannets in the morning, Scoter in the middle of the day, and Red-throated Loons in the evening.

Total we had almost 20,000 birds pass through.

The most unexpected bird seen flying south by the Sea Watch was a Brown Pelican; it makes you wonder where the heck that bird has been hanging around?

Another bird seen today that we have not seen to much of was a lone Great Cormorant.

Here is a list of the birds seen today:

Snow Goose 74
Brant 24
American Wigeon 3
American Black Duck 65
Green-winged Teal 499
Ring-necked Duck 3
Greater Scaup 19
Lesser Scaup 18
Scaup sp. 57
Common Eider 59
Surf Scoter 656
White-winged Scoter 14
Black Scoter 5417
Long-tailed Duck 50
Buffelhead 66
Red-breasted Merganser 52
Red-throated Loon 5904
Common Loon 50
Northern Gannet 5062
Brown Pelican 1
Double-crested Cormorant 42
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 3
Laughing Gull 35
Bonaparte's Gull 8
Ring-billed Gull 370
Herring Gull 156
Great Black-backed Gull 34
American Oystercatcher 1

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