8/29/12

Code three east winds started the day off, but by the end of the count they had died and switched W.  Good verity, but low numbers.

9 CAGO

4 MALL

1 GWTE

7 BWTE

21 DCCO

1 GRHE

1 GBHE

1 AGPL (really early for here)

2 SEPL

2 RUTU

16 SAND

3 LESA

1 BBSA

1 PAJA (int. morph juvie, spent the last five hours of the count working the offshore gull flock)

12 BOGU

580 RBGU (large mixed flock feeding scope distance offshore all day)

230 HEGU (ditto)

17 FOTE

8 COTE

26 BLTE (one flock)

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Nonwaterbirds

2 PEFA (one buzzed the shorebirds on the pier ten feet from where I was standing!)

1 WHIP (by far the best bird of the day, and maybe the season, it buzzed the end of the pier and spent the next 10 minutes flying along the pier, freaking the shorebirds out and briefly landing before heading inland. I was initially stumped by what the hell it was (this is the second whip Ive ever seen), as its flight style and gizz was like a SSHA, but so clearly not a SSHA)

MOWA, WIWA, MAWA, NAWA, PAWA, YEWA, RBNU- a nice flock working around the parkinglot in the mid morning. 

Also had a Silver-haired Bat spend several hours sleeping behind my chair at the base of the lighthouse.

look at the eye shine, you don't see much off that in normal waterbirds!

 

 gliding, get the accipiter gizz?

 In some places this would be called a CONW....