[Maine-birds] AM Dyer Point Seawatch and a couple of other birds of note, 10/30.

Hi all,
Here's the complete scoresheet from our seawatching session at Dyer Point, Cape Elizabeth this morning.

8:35am to 11:45am.
Mod E becoming Lt-mod SE. Cloudy to mostly cloudy, intermittent rain or mist, seas 6-8ft and subsiding. Variable visibility.

All fly-bys tallied, with about 85% of the flight northbound.

402 Common Eiders
201 dark-winged scoter sp.
194 Black Scoters
137 Long-tailed Ducks
133 White-winged Scoters
94 Surf Scoters
88 Northern Gannets
88 Bonaparte's Gulls
73 Black-legged Kittiwakes
52 Red-necked Grebes
28 Red-throated Loons
26 Common Loons
13 large shearwater sp.
12 Green-winged Teal
8 Great Cormorants
5 loon sp.
3 Horned Grebes
3 Double-crested Cormorants
3 Great Shearwaters
2 Red-breasted Mergansers
2 Greater Scaup
2 LAUGHING GULLS
2 Black Guillemots
2 large alcid sp.
1 CORY'S SHEARWATER (late!)
1 sub-adult POMARINE JAEGER
1 DOVEKIE

Jeannette and I covered a lot of ground today but have little to show for it otherwise. There were some nice concentrations of gulls in fields, but the only additional sightings of note were:
1 1st W Iceland Gull, Thornhurst Farm.
1 Great Egret, Wolfe's Neck Farm.

-Derek
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