Seawatch Report - Dec 11

Today was the quietest that I can recall during this season of Seawatch. Nothing was flying in force, but an uptick in Rhinoceros Auklets during the last hour of the count (96--the bulk of the entire day's tally of 179) are making me wonder what tomorrow morning will be like... a nice dark Pomarine Jaeger in the last hour of the count was fun, too.

Surf Scoters continue to trickle by--193 today. The murre flight was very small (267 total), and we had 13 Ancient Murrelets. We did not break triple digits of either Red-throated (55) or Pacific (93) Loons. 5 Northern Fulmars were the only tubenoses detected today.

See the full checklist here: https://ebird.org/tripreport/300131

-Alison Vilag