Seaside Cove
Jan 08,2002 1000-1030hr

The impressive scoter numbers continue at Seaside Cove.
I also found 29 HARLEQUIN DUCKS and a GREATER SCAUP
there this morning. A RED-NECKED GREBE was working the
surf right off the parking lot the surfers use.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Red-necked Grebe 1 [1]
Western Grebe 4
Pelagic Cormorant 5
Greater Scaup 1
Harlequin Duck 29
Surf Scoter 20000
White-winged Scoter 50
Black Scoter 100
Bald Eagle 2
Black Turnstone 6
California Gull 1
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
American Crow 20
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Townsend's Warbler 2
Dark-eyed Junco 8

Footnotes:

[1] working the surf near parking lot

Total number of species seen: 19


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