Hi Tweets,

A quick spin around the Stanley Park Seawall, 11.30-4.30.

Conditions: overcast and light showers in morning clearing to scattered low
and high cloud by early afternoon; wind SE to S 20-25 km/hr backing to SW
5-10 by sunset; temp 12 C.; sea state 2 abating to 0 by evening. The first
day of clearing after a large warm Low from the SW had held sway for two
days of heavy rain.

Species:

Pacific Loon 1 bsc ad
Common Loon 3 bsc ad
Horned Grebe 12 10 bsc ad, 2 jv
Red-necked Grebe 2 bsc ad
Western Grebe 1
Aechmophorus grebe sp. 95 (offshore flock)
Double-cr. Cormorant 9
Brandt's Cormorant 9
Pelagic Cormorant 21 (11 in pre-alt. molt)
Canada Goose 36
Mallard 2 (1 pr.)
Eurasian X Amer. Wigeon 1
American Wigeon 55
Greater Scaup 398
Lesser Scaup 27
Harlequin Duck 13 (8f 5m, 3 pr)
Surf Scoter 166 (very low for this location)
White-winged Scoter 2 (2f)
Common Goldeneye 198
Barrow's Goldeneye 102
Bufflehead 18 (13m 5f)
Common Merganser 2 (2f)
Red-breasted Merganser 13 (9m 3f 1jv; 3 pr with 1 pr in courtship)
Bald Eagle 7 (5a in 2 pr., 2jv)
Black Oystercatcher 5 (5a, very tame)
Mew Gull 37
California Gull 1 ad
Western Gull 1 bsc1
Glaucous-winged Gull 166
Western X Glaucous-W. 7 (7ad)

No alcids.

Cheers,




--
Michael Price "Are you being brilliant or are you going berserk?
Vancouver BC Canada At first, sometimes, it may be hard to tell."
mprice at mindlink.net -New York Times headline