Seawatch, 15 October 2015

The sulids party continued today at the Avalon Seawatch. Yesterday's adult Brown Booby was followed up today by a 1st cycle MASKED BOOBY that spent about 10 minutes fishing in front of the count location today before drifting southwards. This is a first count record (only the 2nd record for NJ) and part of what has been a great rarity run at the Seawatch, no doubt in part to a fortnight long nor'easter and Hurricane Joaquin in late September.
Counter: Skye Haas
Total for the day: 7,349
Total birds for the season: 58,418

	10/15	Season Totals
ABDU - American Black Duck	30	46
AMOY - American Oystercatcher	68	149
AMPI - American Pipit	7	10
AMRO - American Robin	1	3
AMWI - American Wigeon	2	16
BAEA - Bald Eagle	1	8
BBPL - Black-bellied Plover	27	277
BLACKS - Black Saddlebags	1	--
BLPW - Blackpoll Warbler	2	10
BLSC - Black Scoter	105	3,379
BRAN - Brant	419	1,146
BRCR - Brown Creeper	1	2
BRPE - Brown Pelican	19	125
BUCKEYE - Common Buckeye Butterfly	7	--
CANG - Canada Goose	9	9
CATE - Caspian Tern	3	217
CLOAKM - Mourning Cloak Butterfly	2	--
CMWA - Cape May Warbler	1	2
COLO - Common Loon	12	69
COMMGD - Common Green Darner	2	--
COYE - Common Yellowthroat	5	5
DCCO - Double-crested Cormorant	4,379	24,246
DUNL - Dunlin	1	62
DWSC-SP - Surf/Black (Dark-winged) Scoter Species	67	3,031
EAME - Eastern Meadowlark	3	4
EAPH - Eastern Phoebe	2	3
FOTE - Forster's Tern	517	5,341
GADW - Gadwall	16	28
GBBG - Great Black-backed Gull	18	423
GBHE - Great Blue Heron	33	72
GCKI - Golden-crowned Kinglet	39	42
GREG - Great Egret	54	142
GRSC - Greater Scaup	2	7
GWTE - Green-winged Teal	88	306
HERG - Herring Gull	23	583
HOGR - Horned Grebe	1	1
HOLA - Horned Lark	1	1
KILL - Killdeer	4	7
LAGU - Laughing Gull	319	3,394
LBBG - Lesser Black-backed Gull	2	21
MABO - Masked Booby	1	1
MALL - Mallard	1	5
MAWR - Marsh Wren	1	1
MERL - Merlin	2	7
MODO - Mourning Dove	1	1
MONARCH - Monarch Butterfly	108	--
NOFL - Northern Flicker	6	21
NOGA - Northern Gannet	75	372
NOPA - Northern Parula	1	1
NOPI - Northern Pintail	39	314
OSPR - Osprey	1	27
PAJA - Parasitic Jaeger	2	203
PAWA - Palm Warbler	19	26
PEFA - Peregrine Falcon	3	27
RBGU - Ring-billed Gull	8	34
RBME - Red-breasted Merganser	1	1
RCKI - Ruby-crowned Kinglet	3	5
REKN - Red Knot	8	16
ROYT - Royal Tern	40	1,308
RTLO - Red-throated Loon	7	36
RUBL - Rusty Blackbird	1	1
RUDU - Ruddy Duck	17	18
RUTU - Ruddy Turnstone	1	27
SAND - Sanderling	130	518
SAVS - Savannah Sparrow	23	40
SCOTER-SP - Scoter Species	31	511
SEPL - Semipalmated Plover	5	42
SMSHB-SP - Small Shorebird Species	2	135
SNEG - Snowy Egret	38	242
SOSP - Song Sparrow	6	8
SULPHURO - Orange Sulphur Butterfly	1	--
SUSC - Surf Scoter	26	1,040
SWSP - Swamp Sparrow	11	11
TRES - Tree Swallow	7	8,392
TUVU - Turkey Vulture	8	31
UDEJ - Dark-eyed Junco	1	1
UNDU - Duck Species	27	105
UNSO - Unidentified Songbird	126	131
WANDEG - Wandering Glider	1	--
WIWR - Winter Wren	1	1
WODU - Wood Duck	47	53
YBSA - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	1	1
YRWA - Yellow-rumped Warbler	348	391