Today was a beautiful day at the Sea Watch. The strong movement of scoters of the previous two days died down a bit today with only 10,000+ birds. Instead today we had a good movement of dabblers, especially Green Winged Teal, Black ducks, and Wood Ducks. We also had a good movement of Red-throated Loon and Northern Gannets.
Here is a list of birds seen today:
Brant (Atlantic) 82
Wood Duck 109
American Black Duck 226
Gadwall 2
Mallard 32
American Wigeon 14
Northern Pintail 47
Blue-winged Teal 5
Green-winged Teal 1050
Greater Scaup 60
Lesser Scaup 45
Ring-necked Duck 4
Scaup sp. 86
Common Eider 35
Surf Scoter 2464
White-winged Scoter 28
Black Scoter 5671
dark-winged scoter sp. 2669
Long-tailed Duck 9
Buffelhead 13
Hooded Merganser 8
Red-breasted Merganser 20
Red-throated Loon 2865
Common Loon 31
Northern Gannet 4616
Double-crested Cormorant 1072
Great Egret 10
Laughing Gull 19
Bonaparte's Gull 2
Ring-billed Gull 399
Herring Gull 129
Great Black-backed Gull 46
Forster's Tern 277
Royal Tern 18
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