Ah.travel for different birds.  The Cape this time of year is terrific for
waterfowl.  Both ocean and kettlehole / divers vs dabblers.

 

Birded Wednesday thru Saturday.  This is a part-time concept.  Lelia and I
ventured to P-town on Friday (we forgoed the shopping).'

 

This is the gross tally..a compilation of south shore, central cape,  north
shore, kettleholes, and outer/upper cape coastal birding.

 

Common Loon  35

Red-throated Loon   6

Horned Grebe    7

Northern Gannet   135

Razorbill      2

Manx Shearwater   2

Sooty Shearwater   1

Pomarine Jaeger      3   imm.

Black-legged Kittiwake    2

Bonaparte's Gull       200

Laughing, Great-bb, herring, and ring-billed.

Common Eider  ~ 3,400  (may be 100,00 along the coast of CC)

Black Scoter    40

Surf Scoter      60

White-winged  300   really there were 1,000's, rafts !   just a long ways
away.

Red-br. Merg   240

Long-tailed Duck    24

Lesser Scaup      24

Greater Scaup     2

 

No. Pintail    1

No. Shoveler   2

Gadwall    16

Am. Widgeon    22

Hooded Merg   16

Mallards   30

Black Duck      14

 

Snow Bunting    40

Ruddy Turnstone    40

Dunlin     18

Sanderling    42

 

Coopers Hawk   1   .. at the wharf in P-town.

Yellow-rumped Warbler   2

 

Always good to be out and birding.

 

BiSh

 

Ps..bumped into a group near P-town birding...Wayne Petersen says hi to C.
Rimmer and Geo. Clark.

 

 



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