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SeaWatch at Ocean City Inlet, 03/24/07

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:15:31 -0700

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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