Seawatch - Sunday, October 14, 2018

Sunday's light north winds produce a very nice flight of comorants, followed by a switch to light south winds that produced a nice little evening flight of scoters.  Over 7400 Double-crested Cormorants and 1 Great Cormorant flew by, often in large flocks of 100-300.  The first hour after sunrise alone was quite busy, with nearly 1500 cormorants!  Two Humpback Whales were spotted in the early afternoon, giving good but somewhat distant looks as they moved north in front of Ocean City and Atlantic City. 

There was also a considerable movement of Monarch butterflies, with over 200 tallied when I wasn't busy counting birds, meaning that there were probably far more moving past.  The afternoon movement of scoters was definitely a highlight, and we ended the day with 1000 Black and 1150 Surf Scoters, plus nearly another 1000 Surf/Black Scoter that were too distant for confident identification. 

Check out Trektellen totals here: http://trektellen.org/count/view/1747/20181014?sc=0