Today started off relatively busy, with nearly 1000 birds per hour for the first three hours. However, only 2000 birds were counted in the remaining seven hours, making for a slow mid-day and afternoon.
Today's most notable push of birds were the non-scoter ducks, mixed in with scoters at much higher proportions then they have been recently, making for some difficult counting, trying to keep track of a Surf Scoter, Black Scoter, teal, scaup, and black duck number all at once. Over 200 American Black Ducks, 284 Green-winged Teal, 187 scaup, as well as a Common Goldeneye, some Bufflehead, and both Hooded and Red-breasted Mergansers were counted today, making for good diversity.
Nearly 800 gannets and 500 Red-throated Loons heading past, keeping up the slow-but-steady push of these late-peaking species. There is bound to be a big push before the end of the month!
Check out the totals here: http://trektellen.org/count/view/1747/20171118
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