The day started out warmer then the 30 degrees that was forecasted early this morning, so the layers quickly came off.
The first hour was a little chaotic with a strong push of both Gannets and Red-throated loon; 1294 and 827 respectively. It is no surprise that we had set a new season high for each of these species today; NOGA = 5,426 RTLO = 3,523.
Other than those two species, there was not a great movement of other species. We had a few sightings of Bonaparte's Gull, Parasitic Jaegar (one almost over the jetty!), a Brown Pelican, a Green Heron, and 2 Snow Geese that came close down the bar.
Before I post the listing for the day I want to give a shout out to the family from New York that stayed at the Sea Watch for the whole day; from near sunrise to close to sunset. You guys are awesome to make the trip to have your son experience the Sea Watch even when it was as slow as it was today.
Now here is a list of birds seen today:
Brant (Atlantic) 16
American Black Duck 14
Northern Shoveler 3
Green-winged Teal 3
Ruddy Duck 1
Greater Scaup 8
Lesser Scaup 3
Scaup sp. 10
Surf Scoter 1160
White-winged Scoter 3
Black Scoter 513
dark-winged scoter sp. 120
Long-tailed Duck 3
Buffelhead 2
Red-breasted Merganser 2
Red-throated Loon 3523
Common Loon 127
Horned Grebe 3
Northern Gannet 5426
Double-crested Cormorant 272
Green Heron 1
Laughing Gull 192
Bonaparte's Gull 20
Ring-billed Gull 144
Herring Gull 98
Great Black-backed Gull 100
Forster's Tern 43
Royal Tern 21
Parasitic Jaegar 4
American Oystercatcher 5
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