Seawatch – 14 November 2014

"Overall one of the slower days in a few weeks. There was a little flurry of activity in the early morning, with an impressive 2,515 Northern Gannets in the 2nd hour, but by mid-morning, the flight all but died and stayed that way for the rest of the day. However, every day has its little gem and today's was a couple of flocks of high-flying Tundra Swans moving south. Such a pretty beast!" – S.H.

Observation time: 0641 – 1656
Observer: Skye Haas

Species counted:
Brant – 85
Tundra Swan – 23
Wood Duck – 1
American Black Duck – 5
Green-winged Teal – 3
scaup, sp. – 12
Surf Scoter – 287
White-winged Scoter – 2
Black Scoter – 1,772
Surf/Black Scoter – 1,569
scoter, sp. – 28
Long-tailed Duck – 2
Bufflehead – 109
Red-breasted Merganser – 7
duck, sp. – 37
Red-throated Loon – 193

Common Loon – 35

loon, sp. – 2

Horned Grebe – 4

Northern Gannet – 3,835

Double-crested Cormorant – 576

Great Cormorant – 1

Laughing Gull – 6

Bonaparte's Gull – 25

Ring-billed Gull – 58

Herring Gull – 17

Forster's Tern – 82

Royal Tern – 9 

American Oystercatcher – 7

Black-bellied Plover – 23

Ruddy Turnstone – 3

Sanderling – 80

Dunlin – 300

Purple Sandpiper – 19

Red Knot – 16

Total: 8,785