Sea Watch, Saturday November 21, 2009

Well today was the first day that was below sixty degrees, and wouldn't you know we had a movement of over 12,000 birds today.

We started off slow today, but we had some good sightings of different birds early on such as a flock of Snow Geese, a King Eider, and a Common Goldeneye.

As the day progressed there was a fair movement of Scoter and Red-throated Loons, but it was not until the last three hours that the Loons and the Gannets really picked up and kept me busy until the end of the day.

Here is what was seen today:

Snow Goose 9
Brant 7
American Black Duck 8
Blue-winged Teal 1
King Eider 1
Common Eider 1
Surf Scoter 699
White-winged Scoter 4
Black Scoter 482
Long-tailed Duck 9
Bufflehead 1
Common Golderneye 1
Red-breasted Merganser 8
Red-throated Loon 1731
Common Loon 10
Double-crested Cormorant 15
Northern Gannet 8936
Laughing Gull 189
Ring-billed Gull 212
Herring Gull 99
Great Black-backed Gull 47
Royal Tern 4
American Oystercatcher 58

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