Migration at the Point - Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Good morning for sea watching, with big flocks of scoter and a very active feeding flock over the rips, showing 7 Parasitic Jaegers, a couple very close! Also, amazing Blue Jay migration!

Leaders: Mary Watkins, Gerry and Chris Dewaghe 

42 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  5
Mute Swan  6
Gadwall  4
Mallard  8
Surf Scoter  24
Black Scoter  90
Mourning Dove  9
shorebird sp.  25     High fly-over, likely Semipalmated SP
Parasitic Jaeger  7
Laughing Gull  8
Herring Gull  3
Great Black-backed Gull  16
Caspian Tern  2
Forster's Tern  8
Common/Forster's Tern  200
Royal Tern  12
Double-crested Cormorant  5
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Green Heron  1
Osprey  6
Sharp-shinned Hawk  4
Cooper's Hawk  2
Bald Eagle  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  4
Peregrine Falcon  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  500
Carolina Chickadee  5
Red-breasted Nuthatch  7
Carolina Wren  3
American Robin  28
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  4
European Starling  36
House Finch  6
Song Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  1
Red-winged Blackbird  2
Common Grackle  4
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  48
Northern Cardinal  3
House Sparrow  8

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