Sea Watch Count - 12/1/08

Counter: Sean Fitzgerald

Snow Goose - 2
Canada Goose - 55
American Black Duck - 5
Northern Pintail - 1
Greater Scaup - 3
Lesser Scaup - 6
Common Eider - 2
Surf Scoter - 212
White-winged Scoter - 18
Black Scoter - 50
Long-tailed Duck - 10
Bufflehead - 4
Red-breasted Merganser - 133
Red-throated Loon - 629
Common Loon - 18
Northern Gannet - 1,054
Brown Pelican - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 2
Great Cormorant - 1
Laughing Gull - 11
Bonaparte's Gull - 74
Ring-billed Gull - 11
American Oystercatcher - 2

Total - 2,304

Other noteworthy sightings: Black Skimmer and Marbled Godwit continue at Townsend's Inlet. A King Eider (young male) was also observed flying north with Common Eider (7) early in the morning.

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