Observations

1. Canada Goose

   Number observed: 4

2. American Wigeon

   Number observed: 2

   Details: Pair fw with mall.

3. Mallard

   Number observed: 7

4. Northern Pintail

   Number observed: 15

   Details: Fw. Estimate.

5. Greater Scaup

   Number observed: 8

   Details: 4 pairs

6. White-winged Scoter

   Number observed: 19

   Details: All fw.

7. Long-tailed Duck

   Number observed: 486

   Details: New high count on the year. Steadily moving w in groups of 3-5 for all five hours.

8. Bufflehead

   Number observed: 4

   Details: 3m 1f FW.

9. Common Goldeneye

   Number observed: 23

   Details: Mostly fw.

10. Common Merganser

    Number observed: 16

11. Red-breasted Merganser

    Number observed: 513

    Details: New high count on year, flying west in pairs and groups of 5-10 for all 5 hours

12. merganser sp.

    Number observed: 7

13. duck sp.

    Number observed: 1

14. Horned Grebe

    Number observed: 19

    Details: All presumed eventually fw. Several stopped to loaf and fish.

15. Red-necked Grebe

    Number observed: 1

    Details: FOY. fw.

16. grebe sp.

    Number observed: 4

17. Ring-billed Gull

    Number observed: 16

    Details: 1 2cy

18. Herring Gull (American)

    Number observed: 12

19. gull sp.

    Number observed: 50

20. Common Loon

    Number observed: 247

    Details: New high count on year. Exact count over 5 hours; only two birds stopped to loaf, one of which (still in half winter plumage) continued on west shortly. All others due west with zero return flights. Was scanning thru the scope the whole time so would have seen eastward fliers. Spectacular to see so many! Mostly lone or small groups, max group size 8. Perhaps early for a count this high, but ice out has been late, so this was probably a release of backed up rbme, ltdu, and colo from down near Cheboygan.

21. loon sp.

    Number observed: 23

    Details: Most fw. Too far or intermediate in appearance bw colo and rtlo.

22. Turkey Vulture

    Number observed: 9

    Details: Over up.

23. Bald Eagle

    Number observed: 1

24. Merlin

    Number observed: 1

25. American Crow

    Number observed: 2

26. Common Raven

    Number observed: 1

27. passerine sp.

    Number observed: 3

    Details: Bcch or gcki in the trees, hard to hear from wind and having hood up. Possibly other spp. I don’t remember, so passerine sp. should suffice.