To be honest, today was not as bad as I thought it was going to be because today's rain was rather on the light side and the wind was not blowing out of the North or NE. With the rain slanting in from the NW I was able to use the little construction trailer near where I usually conduct the count as a weather block; had it not been for the trailer I probably would be whistling a different tune.
The weather being what it was though did not make for a big migration day, with the days total under 1,500 birds. There was a good movement of Brant, Red-breasted Mergansers, and Long-tailed Duck today, in addition to the movement of a few hundred Scoter through the course of the day. Special birds of note today were a Great Cormorant and another Royal Tern (the same individual from yesterday?).
Here is today's break down of the count:
Brant 272
American Black Duck 8
Lesser Scaup 11
Common Eider 13
Surf Scoter 303
White-winged Scoter 10
Black Scoter 257
Long-tailed Duck 103
Buffelhead 3
Red-breasted Merganser 121
Red-throated Loon 119
Common Loon 9
Double-crested Cormorant 31
Great Cormorant 1
Bonaparte's Gull 2
Ring-billed Gull 15
Herring Gull 11
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Royal Tern 1
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