We traded birds for weather at the Seawatch today. While the flight was considerably smaller than it was yesterday (but still good!), the weather was also far nicer- with light winds and mild temps making for a much more pleasant viewing experience. Red-throated Loons put in their first 1,000+ showing of the season, complementing a steady trickle of scoters from dawn to dusk.
Brant - 81
Wood Duck - 3
American Black Duck - 69
Mallard - 3
Northern Pintail - 11
Green-winged Teal - 330
Greater Scaup - 17
Lesser Scaup - 4
scaup, sp. - 6
aythya, sp. - 12
Surf Scoter - 2,031
White-winged Scoter - 49
Black Scoter - 6,879
dark-winged scoter - 1,052
scoter, sp. - 162
Long-tailed Duck - 2
Bufflehead - 9
Red-breasted Merganser - 45
Ruddy Duck - 13
Red-throated Loon - 1,154
Common Loon - 17
Horned Grebe - 24
Northern Gannet - 225
Double-crested Cormorant - 1,437
Laughing Gull - 10
Bonaparte's Gull - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 62
Herring Gull - 26
Great Black-backed Gull - 4
Forster's Tern - 2
Royal Tern - 10
Parasitic Jaeger - 3
(Total = 13,755)
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