[Maine-birds] Schoodic Point SeaWatch

10-22-15

Winds ablowin' out of the south, 20 mph and up.

2 hour stint.

As an old time hawk watcher, I'm beginning to realize that sea watching has its benefits!

Most birds fairly close in and identifiable through binocs, others using scope verification.

2	American Black Duck Anas rubripes
497	Common Eider Somateria mollissima    Numbers of loafing birds slightly less today at the point, roughly 220. Interesting observation, most birds at the point on the water are females. Migrating birds were 70% male.
190	Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
10	White-winged Scoter Melanitta fusca
91	Black Scoter Melanitta americana
191	Surf/Black Scoter Melanitta perspicillata/americana Distant migrating strings unable to detect field marks or flight style differences of species. Scoters in general are migrating through this area at this time.
11	Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis
69	Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
4	Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
18	Common Loon Gavia immer
1	Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
52	Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
31	Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus
3	Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo 1 migrant.
2	Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Immature birds hanging around the point.
2	Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle
13	Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
25	Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
48	Herring Gull Larus argentatus
4	Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
1	Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
4	American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos