Waterbird Count, October 23

Darrell Lawson covered for me on the 22nd so I suspect he will post a summary about that. Today brought a pretty good duck movement. Redheads, Long-tailed Ducks, and White-winged Scoters were the biggest movers, predictably. A good number of Bonaparte’s Gulls passed through, which I always enjoy. Some passerine highlights were 46 Snow Buntings flying down the beach and an early Common Redpoll perched in the feeder tree. I also had my first Rough-legged Hawks of the season migrate over.

Mute Swan – 2
Redhead – 351
Greater Scaup – 14
Surf Scoter – 1
White-winged Scoter – 154
Black Scoter – 1
Long-tailed Duck – 431
Common Merganser – 10
Red-breasted Merganser – 33
duck sp. – 212
Common Loon – 13
loon sp. – 1
Horned Grebe – 2
Red-necked Grebe – 3
Double-crested Cormorant – 3
Bonaparte’s Gull – 23

Bald Eagle – 2
Red-tailed Hawk – 2
Rough-legged Hawk – 3

Mute Swans, 10/23/16
Mute Swans, 10/23/16

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