Seawatch, 25 October 2015

Though Sunday started gray and wet, it brought with it the season's first Harlequin Duck and a massive Northern Gannet flight with 4,065 tallied all day, over 1,300 of which occurred within the first hour of the count.
Counter: Skye Haas
Total for the day: 12,984
Total birds for the season: 252,547

	10/25	Season Totals
ABDU - American Black Duck	5	408
AMWI - American Wigeon	8	78
BAEA - Bald Eagle	2	26
BBPL - Black-bellied Plover	7	1,049
BLSC - Black Scoter	475	14,660
BLSK - Black Skimmer	2	555
BOGU - Bonaparte's Gull	5	19
BRAN - Brant	1	2,635
BRPE - Brown Pelican	12	203
COLO - Common Loon	59	510
UNDU-SP - Duck Species	1	1,104
DCCO - Double-crested Cormorant	4,803	119,526
DUNL - Dunlin	5	364
DWSC-SP - Surf/Black (Dark-winged) Scoter Species	1,165	11,455
FOTE - Forster's Tern	172	12,738
GADW - Gadwall	1	41
GBBG - Great Black-backed Gull	58	644
GBHE - Great Blue Heron	2	156
GRCO - Great Cormorant	1	53
HARD - Harlequin Duck	1	1
HERG - Herring Gull	25	2,256
HOGR - Horned Grebe	2	3
LAGU - Laughing Gull	386	23,921
LESC - Lesser Scaup	7	77
MERL - Merlin	1	12
NOGA - Northern Gannet	4,065	5,689
NOPI - Northern Pintail	47	861
PAJA - Parasitic Jaeger	27	403
PEFA - Peregrine Falcon	1	34
RBGU - Ring-billed Gull	8	415
ROYT - Royal Tern	41	1,977
RTLO - Red-throated Loon	52	577
RUTU - Ruddy Turnstone	3	47
SAND - Sanderling	30	1,630
SCOTER-SP - Scoter Species	60	13,372
SEPL - Semipalmated Plover	2	53
SUSC - Surf Scoter	1,432	20,401
WWSC - White-winged Scoter	10	39