11/2/12

Mostly cloudy skies and code 5 NW winds that had dropped to a 4 by the end of the count.

NO Sulids were seen today.
NO Alcids were seen today.

But we did get a writeup bird. woo.

6 GADW
2 AMWI
25 MALL
11 REDH
1 LESC
116 Scaup sp
3 SUSC
8 WWSC
6 BLSC (one ad. male!)
16 LTDU
12 BUFF
1 COGO
3 HOME
1 COME
57 RBME
1 RUDU
7 RTLO
16 COLO
7 HOGR
1 RNGR (flyby in the 7th hour, this is turning into a excellent fall for this species)
1 WEGR (in the 7th hour Dan Elliot pointed out a grebe just off the breakers, it was a WEGR!  It was present through the end of the count. This is the first fall Tiscornia record since 2010, and the third since 2009. Three out of the last 4 county records are from Tiscornia. While a writeup bird, its a lame writeup)
15 BOGU 

1 PISI, and 2 CORE where the only finches of the day, and the SNBU flock was working the dunes.