Seawatch, 20 October 2015

The great flight from Monday continued a little into Tuesday with a record-breaking single-day high count for Laughing Gulls. The previous single-day record, set October 12, 2000, was 6,603 but Tom tallied a total of 10,579 LAGU's on Tuesday, which is nearly double the number of LAGU's counted all season so far.
Counter: Tom Reed
Total for the day: 21,799
Total birds for the season: 168,897

	10/20	Season Totals
ABDU - American Black Duck	8	294
BLSC - Black Scoter	2,488	10,877
BLSK - Black Skimmer	7	461
BOGU - Bonaparte's Gull	6	9
BRAN - Brant	30	2,026
CEDW - Cedar Waxwing	2	24
COLO - Common Loon	67	287
DCCO - Double-crested Cormorant	3,608	79,857
DWSC-SP - Surf/Black (Dark-winged) Scoter Species	494	7,612
FOTE - Forster's Tern	1,353	9,157
GBBG - Great Black-backed Gull	4	482
GRSC - Greater Scaup	2	15
GWTE - Green-winged Teal	21	1,052
HERG - Herring Gull	19	1,630
LAGU - Laughing Gull	10,579	15,261
LESC - Lesser Scaup	12	47
NOGA - Northern Gannet	140	818
NOHA - Northern Harrier	1	11
NOPI - Northern Pintail	1	747
NSHO - Northern Shoveler	1	9
PAJA - Parasitic Jaeger	12	268
PISI - Pine Siskin	1	2
RBGU - Ring-billed Gull	137	286
ROYT - Royal Tern	61	1,622
RTLO - Red-throated Loon	35	225
RUDU - Ruddy Duck	5	27
SCOTER-SP - Scoter Species	125	12,992
SNGO - Snow Goose	1	1
SUSC - Surf Scoter	2,575	7,624
WILL - Willet	1	3
WWSC - White-winged Scoter	3	23