Birding at O.C. on 1/16

Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 20:59:44 -0500


Hello all,


    Sorry for a late report, I was tired in the past two days. I came 
home on Tues. night after spent a week at my grandparents' to watch over 
my ill grandfather. I took a break on Sat. the 16th to do some birding 
at O.C. Well, the Common Mergansers numbers are down last week after 
seeing a good number during the Worcester Co. CBC.

O.C. Inlet

  15  Common Loon
   8  Red-throated Loon
  16  Double-crested Cormorant
   5  N. Gannet (offshore)  
  84  Bonaparte's Gull
 306  Ring-billed Gull
 290  Herring Gull
 103  Great Black-backed Gull
   1  Lesser Black-backed Gull (1st winter resting on south jetty)
   1  Black-headed Gull (1st winter in ocean with a flock of Bonaparte)
   4  Forster's Tern
   1  Am. Oystercatcher (on south jetty)
  53  Purple Sandpiper (both jetties)
  44  Ruddy Turnstone (both jetties)
   4  Harlequin's Ducks (both pairs in water at south jetty)
   5  Common Eiders (2 adult males, 1 imm. male & 1 adult female south 
of south jetty)
  17  Red-breasted Merganser
  14  Surf Scoter
  18  Black Scoter
 388  Rock Dove
 216  European Starling
  24  "Slate-colored" Junco (seen at several pines near Coast Guard 
Station)
   8  Song Sparrow (seen with juncos)
   6  White-throated Sparrow (same as above)
  11  House Sparrow (same as above)

4th St. Flat

  6  Common Loon
 36  Double-crested Cormorant 
  4  Atlantic Brant (west side of island, north of Hooper's)
  2  Common Merganser (both females at north side of island)
  6  Red-breasted Merganser
  4  Ruddy Turnstone
  1  Am. Oystercatcher
 37  Ring-billed Gull
 45  Herring Gull
 60  Great Black-backed Gull
  1  Great Blue Heron
 


     Kevin Graff
     Baltimore, MD
     ggraff@erols.com