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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Sea Watch, Thursday December 17, 2009
posted by Nick Metheny | 9:57 PM
Today was a bit cooler and and also a stronger breeze than yesterday out of the NW, but the birds were still flying.

We actually had a rather large flight of over 14,000 birds today.

Here are the numberd from today:

Snow Geese 1550
Canada Goose 744
Brant 95
American Black Duck 39
Mallard 10
Northern Pintail 5
Green-winged Teal 1
Lesser Scaup 2
Scaup sp. 19
Surf Scoter 417
White-winged Scoter 13
Black Scoter 966
Dark-winged Scoter 168
Scoter Sp 702
Long-tailed Duck 106
Bufflehead 14
Common Goldeneye 6
Hooded Merganser 4
Red-breasted Merganser 47
Red-throated Loon 503
Common Loon 12
Horned Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 7846
Great Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 10
Bonaparte's Gull 2
Ring-billed Gull 574
Herring Gull 381
Great Black-backed Gull 24

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