10/24/13

Today was highlighted by the first lake effect snow/sleet/crap of the fall, with bands blowing through all day. Winds were W up to 15, temps hit 6.

11 GADW
14 MALL
2 NSHO
21 REDH
3 LESC
77 Scaup sp
7 SUSC
2 WWSC
6 BLSC
9 BUFF
6 RBME
2 RTLO
19 COLO
3 HOGR
1 EAGR (flew past and landed offshore with a HOGR)
1 DCCO
22 BOGU

The first SNBU of the fall arrived today, obviously they had to wait for the first lake effect snow to show up.

10/23/13

It rained/sleeted/ice'd the first five hours of the count. Winds started NNE at 5 and switched to the W up to 12 (which blew the rain away). Temps hit 6.

1 AMWI
20 MALL
2 GWTE
1 RNDU
137 Scaup
14 SUSC
16 WWSC
2 BLSC
2 LTDU
47 RBME
4 RTLO
12 COLO
2 HOGR
93 DCCO
2 SAND
1 Jaeger sp (waaaaaaay out there)
46 BOGU
3 COTE

2 RLHA, 1 COHA, 1 MERL, 1 PEFA, and 2 SEOW added up to a surprising amount of raptors for a raining day.

10/22/13

The weather matched yesterday. woo

2 WODU
62 GADW
6 AMWI
6 ABDU
83 MALL
8 NOPI
7 NSHO
6 GWTE
2 REDH
226 Scaup
13 SUSC
4 WWSC
16 BLSC
8 RBME
2 RTLO
24 COLO
1 PBGR
18 HOGR
86 DCCO
7 SAND
50 (flock of 47 in the 8th hour)
1 Jaeger sp (not terribly far out, but the distortion was terribly)
4 COTE

4 RLHA passed through over the course of the day, 2 light-2 dark morph.

10/21/13

Cloudy skies and SW winds hitting 13, temps peaked at 10.

Fun day, just kidding.

3 CANG
67 GADW
110 AMWI
20 MALL
11 NOPI
3 GWTE
5 BWTE
13 REDH
203 Scaup
5 SUSC
4 WWSC
3 BUFF
12 RBME
6 COLO
1 PBGR
1 RNGR
2 DCCO
1 BOGU
1 LBBG
1 GLGU
4 COTE

 The highlight of the day had to be the dark morph RLHA that buzzed the dune in the afternoon, I don't see many DM around the county muchless at Tiscornia.

10/20/13

Mostly clear skies, temps that hit 16, and winds that start at 10 but ended the day at 1 knot.

32 GADW
13 AMWI
35 MALL
20 NOPI
7 NSHO
2 GWTE
4 GRSC
650 Scaup
16 SUSC (1 ad. m)
1 WWSC
11 BLSC
35 RBME
4 RTLO
7 COLO
1 HOGR
3 RNGR (one was spent the last two hours of the count feeding offshore)
117 DCCO
28 BOGU
23 COTE

10/19/13

It rained for over half the day. Southerly winds the peaked 16 and temps hit 12.

51 GADW
45 AMWI
9 MALL
14 NOPI
47 NSHO
4 GWTE
8 BWTE
50 REDH
261 Scaup
18 SUSC
8 WWSC
8 BLSC
15 RBME
9 COLO
1 PBGR
1 HOGR
14 DCCO
55 DUNL (one flock!)
28 BOGU

10/18/13

Mostly cloudy skies, with SE winds going SW in the 10 knot range. Temps maxed out at 12.

Good diversity of ducks, but low numbers.

6 CANG
52 GADW
31 AMWI
10 MALL
11 NOPI
44 NSHO
63 GWTE
70 BWTE
6 REDH
195 Scaup sp
4 SUSC
3 BLSC
6 RBME
3 RTLO
4 COLO
41 DCCO
6 KILL
2 SAND
9 DUNL
11 BOGU
3 COTE

1 PEFA and 1 SEOW were the only
other birds of interest for the day.

This is a typical Octobor flock of ducks at Tiscornia, how many species of are in this photo?