Seawatch, 13 November 2015

Friday the 13th brought us luck, and a lot of it, in the form of Franklin's Gulls. These usually rare vagrants to the East Coast had an invasion like none we have ever seen before. The Avalon Seawatch had 73 all day, but over 350 were estimated to be around Cape May County. For more information of the Franklin's Gull phenomenon, visit the View From the Cape blog at: http://cmboviewfromthecape.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-freaky-friday-13th.html

Counter: Skye Haas
Total for the day: 8,024
Total birds for the season: 499,456

	11/13	Season Totals
ABDU - American Black Duck	6	708
AMOY - American Oystercatcher	28	479
AMWI - American Wigeon	2	197
BAEA - Bald Eagle	1	30
BBPL - Black-bellied Plover	23	1,503
BLSC - Black Scoter	344	34,663
BOGU - Bonaparte's Gull	2	433
BRAN - Brant	15	3,128
BUFF - Bufflehead	5	383
COLO - Common Loon	13	1,143
DCCO - Double-crested Cormorant	519	172,295
DUNL - Dunlin	130	2,376
DWSC-SP - Surf/Black (Dark-winged) Scoter Species	762	33,875
FOTE - Forster's Tern	437	16,281
FRGU - Franklin's Gull	73	73
GADW - Gadwall	4	69
GBBG - Great Black-backed Gull	18	942
GLSC - Greater/Lesser Scaup	7	979
GRCO - Great Cormorant	1	72
GRYE - Greater Yellowlegs	2	5
GWTE - Green-winged Teal	168	7,073
HERG - Herring Gull	28	4,341
LAGU - Laughing Gull	284	32,815
LBBG - Lesser Black-backed Gull	2	41
LESC - Lesser Scaup	11	646
LTDU - Long-tailed Duck	1	118
MALL - Mallard	5	54
MONARCH - Monarch Butterfly	1	--
NOGA - Northern Gannet	331	62,019
NOPI - Northern Pintail	5	1,078
PAJA - Parasitic Jaeger	2	594
PUSA - Purple Sandpiper	8	51
RBGU - Ring-billed Gull	72	1,773
RBME - Red-breasted Merganser	8	219
REKN - Red Knot	18	235
ROYT - Royal Tern	2	2,292
RTLO - Red-throated Loon	401	4,659
RUTU - Ruddy Turnstone	13	119
SCOTER-SP - Scoter Species	9	18,495
SUSC - Surf Scoter	4,246	74,517
TUVU - Turkey Vulture	6	64
WODU - Wood Duck	3	818
WWSC - White-winged Scoter	9	144