Hi all,
03/24/07 - 7am-630pm
Full day Seawatch at Ocean City Inlet "Inlet Park",
South 2nd St., Ocean City, Worcester Co., MD
Counter: Kevin Graff
Observers: 6
WEATHER
7am-8am: Light rain/Overcast, 48 degrees, ENE 13 mph
8am-9am: Overcast, 48 degrees, NE 14 mph
9am-10am: Overcast, 49 degrees, NE 10 mph
10am-11am: Overcast, 50 degrees, NE 10 mph
11am-12pm: Overcast, 52 degrees, NE 10 mph
12pm-1pm: Overcast, 52 degrees, NNE 10 mph
1pm-2pm: Overcast, 52 degrees, NE 10 mph
2pm-3pm: Overcast, 53 degrees, N 6 mph
3pm-4pm: Overcast, 53 degrees, NE 10 mph
4pm-5pm: Overcast, 50 degrees, ENE 7 mph
5pm-6pm: MC, 50 degrees, variable 6 mph
6pm-630pm: MC, 48 degrees, ESE 6 mph
"Atlantic" Brant - 7 (4 headed N)
American Black Duck - 4
Northern Pintail - 5 (all headed N)
Greater Scaup - 156 (10 headed N)
Common Eider - 1 (behind south jetty)
Surf Scoter - 822 (643 headed N)
White-winged Scoter - 3 (all headed N)
Black Scoter - 117 (115 headed N)
scoter sp. - 25 (all headed N)
Long-tailed Duck - 37 (22 headed N)
Red-breasted Merganser - 97 (82 headed N)
Red-throated Loon - 320 (310 headed N)
Common Loon - 32 (4 headed N)
Horned Grebe - 1
Northern Gannet - 1532 (1521 headed N, 11 lingers late pm)
Double-crested Cormorant - 9 (7 headed N)
Great Cormorant - 1 (headed N)
Osprey - 1 (headed N)
Bald Eagle - 1 (over ocean near Assateague Is)
American Oystercatcher - 9 (6 headed N)
Ruddy Turnstone - 22
Sanderling - 3
Purple Sandpiper - 42
Laughing Gull - 65 (58 headed N)
C. Black-headed Gull - 1 (headed N)
Bonaparte's Gull - 43 (41 headed N, 2 lingers late pm)
Ring-billed Gull - 39 (10 headed N)
Herring Gull - 94 (62 headed N)
Great Black-backed Gull - 29 (12 headed N)
Forster's Tern - 27 (26 headed N, 1 lingers late pm)
Rock Pigeon - 29
European Starling - 18
Savannah Sparrow - 1
House Sparrow - 5
SPECIES: 33
TOTAL BIRDS: 3598
MARINE MAMMALS
Harbor Seal - 1
Gannets by hours
2007 2006 2005 2004
6am -7am: n/a 81 n/a n/a
7am -8am: 165 244 39 4
8am -9am: 221 305 117 61
9am-10am: 226 1113 92 205
10am-11am: 95 510 151 109
11am-12pm: 52 428 99 52
12pm -1pm: 78 181 262 227
1pm -2pm: 169 38 211 291
2pm -3pm: 53 29 581 499
3pm -4pm: 66 69 318 551
4pm -5pm: 69 32 18 43
5pm -6pm: 268 n/a n/a n/a
6pm-630pm: 59 n/a n/a n/a
1521 3030 1888 2042
Other birds headed N by hours
7am -8am: 27 Surf Scoter
5 Red-throated Loon
5 Ring-billed Gull
5 Herring Gull
8am -9am: 43 Surf Scoter
7 Black Scoter
1 Long-tailed Duck
9 Red-throated Loon
1 Common Loon
18 Laughing Gull
2 Ring-billed Gull
11 Herring Gull
9am-10am: 4 "Atlantic" Brant
62 Surf Scoter
3 White-winged Scoter
92 Black Scoter
4 Red-breasted Merganser
26 Red-throated Loon
1 Common Loon
2 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Cormorant (adult)
2 American Oystercatcher
7 Laughing Gull
1 Bonaparte's Gull
2 Ring-billed Gull
12 Herring Gull
4 Great Black-backed Gull
10am-11am: 32 Surf Scoter
10 Long-tailed Duck
36 Red-throated Loon
15 Laughing Gull
1 C. Black-headed Gull
3 Bonaparte's Gull
5 Herring Gull
1 Forster's Tern
11am-12pm: 5 Northern Pintail (3 dr, 2 hens over ocean)
3 Greater Scaup
103 Surf Scoter
37 Red-breasted Merganser (single flock of 30)
35 Red-throated Loon
1 Double-crested Cormorant
4 American Oystercatcher
6 Bonaparte's Gull
3 Herring Gull
4 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Forster's Tern
12pm -1pm: 68 Surf Scoter
18 scoter sp.
3 Red-breasted Merganser
33 Red-throated Loon
3 Double-crested Cormorant
20 Bonaparte's Gull
4 Herring Gull
1pm -2pm: 7 Greater Scaup
153 Surf Scoter
11 Black Scoter
7 scoter sp.
11 Long-tailed Duck
21 Red-breasted Merganser
37 Red-throated Loon
2 Laughing Gull
11 Bonaparte's Gull
2 Herring Gull
24 Forster's Tern
2pm -3pm: 26 Surf Scoter
12 Red-breasted Merganser
46 Red-throated Loon
2 Common Loon
1 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Laughing Gull
1 Ring-billed Gull
2 Herring Gull
3pm -4pm: 19 Surf Scoter
4 Red-breasted Merganser
26 Red-throated Loon
1 Osprey (349pm)
5 Herring Gull
4pm -5pm: 53 Surf Scoter
5 Black Scoter
21 Red-throated Loon
4 Herring Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
5pm -6pm: 40 Surf Scoter
1 Red-breasted Merganser
28 Red-throated Loon
12 Laughing Gull
4 Herring Gull
6pm-630pm: 17 Surf Scoter
8 Red-throated Loon
2 Laughing Gull
5 Herring Gull
2968 birds in 22 species headed N (3462, 14 sp. in 2006)
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD (Apr)
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