9:10 AM - 11:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments: Out for another post-Thanksgiving walk. I walked the single trail then around the headland on the shore before re-joining the trail back. All ducks & loons out at sea, in small groups or larger rafts of up to 20.
Weather: Bright, sunny, windy (E).
20 species
Canada Goose 6 overhead.
Harlequin Duck 1 close-in, near to the rocks just off the car-park.
Greater Scaup 8
Common Eider 10
Surf Scoter 10
White-winged Scoter 10
Bufflehead 5
Red-throated Diver 6
Great Northern Diver 6
Horned/Slavonian Grebe 10
Northern Harrier 1
Grey Plover 2
Sanderling 10
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
SNOWY OWL 1 flew up from the roadside as I drove across the spit to the car-park. Unmistakable large & white (indicating a male) with different wing shape to the gulls which soon mobbed it all the way to the main shore. It had disappeared, probably inland, by the time I stopped the car & got my 'scope out. After the walk we drove along to Horseneck Beach, to see if it could be re-located but no further sign there or anywhere along the way.
Palm Warbler 1 flew low from the shrubs onto the path where it bobbed its tail. It then flew back to a shrub showing its yellow undertail coverts. It looked like a Western-type from the rest of its dull plumage.
Double-crested Cormorant 4 on rocks off headland.
Song Sparrow 1 on ground in bushes near to car-park on the way out.
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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