Hi Peter and all,
It's great to see more data concerning last winter's remarkable southward
flight of Razorbills and its aftermath.
Regarding the westward spring migration of White-winged Scoters (and also of
Red-necked Grebes and Oldsquaws), this is a curious and incompletely understood
phenomenon, but it was discerned by the old time gunners during the late 19th
Century. See p. 285 here:
http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v008n03/p0279-p0290.pdf
More recently Dick Ferren and others have logged many days of spring seawatches
documenting these flights, so this is a good reminder for us to record flight
direction.
Shai Mitra
Bay Shore
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Subject: [nysbirds-l] East Hampton, Main Beach: 16 April
Sea Watch at Main Beach, East Hampton
7:20 AM - 9:30 AM
Highlight: Razorbill 99
Surf Scoter 245
White-winged Scoter 44(almost all heading west; go figure?)
Black Scoter 1074
Surf/Black Scoter 60
Long-tailed Duck 3
Red-breasted Merganser 5
Red-throated Loon 291
Common Loon 15
loon sp. 58
Horned Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 631
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Laughing Gull 3
Ring-billed Gull 4
Herring Gull 8
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Razorbill 99 (largest group=11; several groups=6; all heading east)
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