Seawatch - 23 October 2014

Observation time: 0614 – 1816

Observer: Skye Haas

Species counted:

Snow Goose – 5

Brant – 196

Wood Duck – 1

Gadwall – 1

American Wigeon – 1

American Black Duck – 206

Mallard – 2

Northern Shoveler – 1

Northern Pintail – 2

Green-winged Teal – 57

Greater Scaup – 2

Lesser Scaup – 9

Duck sp. – 90

Common Eider – 1

Surf Scoter – 403

Black Scoter – 2,737

Dark-winged Scoter – 890

Scoter sp. – 93

Long-tailed Duck – 1

Red-breasted Merganser – 1

Red-throated Loon – 31

Common Loon – 63

Horned Grebe – 1

Ring-necked Grebe – 1

Northern Gannet – 483

Brown Pelican – 6

Double-crested Cormorant – 13,536

Great Cormorant – 3

Great Blue Heron – 65

Laughing Gull – 684

Bonaparte’s Gull – 6

Ring-billed Gull – 37

Herring Gull – 16

Great Black-backed Gull – 56

Black Kittiwake – 1

Caspian Tern – 2

Forster’s Tern – 85

Royal Tern – 50

Parasitic Jaeger – 6

Lesser Black-backed Gull – 3

Redhead – 2

American Oystercatcher – 1

Dunlin – 26

Black-bellied Plover – 43

Red Knot – 21

Semipalmated Plover – 6

Sanderling – 500

Purple Sandpiper – 1

Ruddy Turnstone – 2

Calidris sp. – 3

Total: 20,439