Seawatch – 17 November 2014

[Franklin's Gull flying past the 8th Street jetty. Photo by Tom Reed.]

Observation time:  0625 – 1545 (count suspended at 1545 due to lightning and low visibility).
Observer:  Tom Reed

Species counted:
American Black Duck – 18
Mallard – 2
Northern Pintail – 16
Green-winged Teal – 49
Ring-necked Duck – 12
Greater Scaup – 14
Lesser Scaup – 12
scaup, sp. – 6
Surf Scoter – 626
Black Scoter – 756
Surf/Black Scoter – 456
scoter, sp. – 31
Long-tailed Duck – 5
Bufflehead – 2
Red-breasted Merganser – 3
Red-throated Loon – 1,205
Common Loon – 9
Horned Grebe – 2
Northern Gannet – 1,846
Double-crested Cormorant – 5
Great Blue Heron – 1
Parasitic Jaeger – 1
Bonaparte's Gull – 103
Laughing Gull – 53
Franklin's Gull – 1  (first-winter, flying with 3 Ring-billed Gulls around 8am)
Ring-billed Gull – 358
Herring Gull – 100
Great Black-backed Gull – 21
Forster's Tern – 226
Royal Tern – 5

Total: 5,954