Well it has been a while since I have been last able to post.
Francis, our beloved Laughing Gull companion, has not been seen of late, and it is thought that he joined his compatriots in this season's great migration.
The last few days have been a little wet and windy up at Sea Watch and we have had two big scoter days; Thursday we had over 17,000 scoter move through, and today we had over 22,000 scoter move through.
The diversity of species seen the last few days has been nill. Here is a species list of birds seen today.
Brant 6
Wood Duck 1
Black Duck 3
Green-Wing Teal 77
Great Scaup 3
Lesse Scaup 1
Common Eider 1
Surf Scoter 6,559
Black Scoter 8,900
Dark-winged Scoter 7,332
Red-throated Loon 12
Common Loon 6
Double-crested Cormorant 3,552
Laughing Gull 49
Herring Gull 32
Ring-billed Gull 13
Forsters Tern 12
Royal Tern 15
We also had a big flight of Cormorants, but obviously we did not see it here at Avalon because the little buggers were migrating inland today for the most part. Its been estimated that there were about 35,000 DCCO that flew over Cape May.
And on a final note we have counted 144,876 birds since starting the Sea Watch a little less then a month ago.
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