Banner SeaWatch Day at Schoodic Point

[Seth Benz]

Zack Klyver reports a drizzly morning stint filled with migrating ducks, and others:

625     Long-tailed Duck

305     Common Eider

101     Red-breasted Merganser

  89     Surf Scoter

  74     Black Scoter

  57     Northern Gannet

  46     Lesser Scaup

  43     White-winged Scoter

  18     Red-throated Loon

  13     Common Loon

  17     American Black Duck

  10     Mallard

    9     American Wigeon

    6     Razorbill

    1     Common Murre

    1     Bonaparte's Gull

   33    Unidentified Duck

Season Totals:  36,275 total birds; 243.7 hours of observation during 75 days; Birds per hour = 148.85

2021 marks the 7th consecutive year of daily coverage or waterbird migration at Schoodic Point. Highest count year was 104,647 in 2018.  Our counts do not include Herring and Black-backed gulls due to the complexity of sorting migrating from non-migrating birds.  Always happy to receive questions or comments; and visitors are always welcome.

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Seth Benz Bird Ecology Program Director Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park t: 207.288.1350     c: 207.412.8677 e: sb...@schoodicinstitute.org w: www.schoodicinstitute.org m: P.O. Box 277, Winter Harbor, Maine 04693 Discover the secrets of birds and birding in Acadia  -2021 Bird Tour Schedule