10/31/12

After yesterdays stellar showing of nothing hurricane related, expectations were low for today.

Code 6 NW winds, and light to heavy rains dropped visibility at times to the point were you could barely see the end of the pier. It really sucked. 

But once again Oct. 31 came through (dare I say its going to be moved onto the same level as such hallowed dates as Aug. 24, and Nov. 14).

1 REDH
5 Scaup sp
3 SUSC (two adult males)
10 WWSC
9 BLSC
23 LTDU
4 BUFF
21 RBME
7 COLO
17 HOGR
4 DCCO
1 DOVEKIE (in flight going north just behind a HOGR, its not often a HOGR looks big. The whirring wing beats, gray underwing and small white trailing edge, big head and short stubby black bill, white jutting up behind the head and dark "neck band" were easily seen. This is the 4th state record and only the third since the 1900, its also the first for the county and is the second Alcid for Tiscornia. As a side note the last state record was one found dead ~15 miles north of Tiscornia in '09, at the same time the ANMU was at Tiscornia...)
1 LTJA (a late intermediate morph juvie going N in the 7th hour. A POJA would have been better...) 
1 LIGU (adult cut the piers heading N with one of the BOGU flocks)
114 BOGU (BUT WHERE ARE THE BLKI???)
1 ICGU (juvie on the beach in the 6th hour, probably record early)