[Maine-birds] Dyer Point Seawatch, 10/29 am.

Hi all,

 

I spent just over two hours seawatching from Dyer Point in Cape Elizabeth this morning, joined for an hour by LyB.

7:55am - 10:00am.

Mod-strong NE, variable poor to moderate visib, seas 2-4ft rapidly building.  55F.

 

All southbound birds tallied, small numbers of some species trickling northwards.

152 Common Eiders

132 Northern Gannets (plenty also moving north into the wind).

47 Common Loons

34 White-winged Scoters

33 Black Scoters

13 Surf Scoters

12 Red-throated Loons

12 unidentified cormorants

11 Long-tailed Ducks

10 Bonaparte's Gulls

4 Buffleheads

4 LAUGHING GULLS (getting late)

4 unidentified alcids

3 Red-breasted Mergansers

3 Great Cormorants

3 Double-crested Cormorants

2 unidentified loons

1 Lesser Scaup (northbound; first of fall)

1 Red-necked Grebe

1 Black-legged Kittiwake (first of fall)

1 UNIDENTIFIED JAEGER

1 Black Guillemot

1 ATLANTIC PUFFIN

 

Nothing else of note in various locations between Cape Elizabeth and Freeport this morning, and the highlight of an afternoon trip through the local fields was an immature Peregrine Falcon reigning terror on a large flock of Ring-billed Gulls.

 

-Derek

 

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