From OSBC Facebook posting: On OSBC walk this morning (1/23) at Sachuest Point (and 3rd Beach) with 3 other hardy souls, highlights were 2 Iceland gulls and 1 Glaucous gull and approx 90 N. Gannets diving, a large flock Purple Sandpipers, all 3 scoters, and 4 Green Wing Teal at 3rd Beach marsh.
Sachuest Point NWR, Newport, Rhode Island, US Jan 23, 2016 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Comments: Ocean State Bird Club walk, Leader Leslie Bostrum, with Jana Hesser, Hugh Markey and Alex Allardt
27 species
Canada Goose 25
Greater Scaup 50
Lesser Scaup 2
Common Eider 5
Harlequin Duck 32
Surf Scoter 10
White-winged Scoter 3
Black Scoter 24
Bufflehead 80
Common Goldeneye 20
Red-breasted Merganser 54
Red-throated Loon 7
Common Loon 24
Horned Grebe 6
Northern Gannet 85
Great Cormorant 15
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 10
Purple Sandpiper 40
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Iceland Gull 2
Glaucous Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 30
American Crow 5
European Starling X
Song Sparrow 1
Sachuest Point NWR, Newport, Rhode Island, US Jan 23, 2016 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Comments: Ocean State Bird Club walk, Leader Leslie Bostrum, with Jana Hesser, Hugh Markey and Alex Allardt
27 species
Canada Goose 25
Greater Scaup 50
Lesser Scaup 2
Common Eider 5
Harlequin Duck 32
Surf Scoter 10
White-winged Scoter 3
Black Scoter 24
Bufflehead 80
Common Goldeneye 20
Red-breasted Merganser 54
Red-throated Loon 7
Common Loon 24
Horned Grebe 6
Northern Gannet 85
Great Cormorant 15
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 10
Purple Sandpiper 40
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Iceland Gull 2
Glaucous Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 30
American Crow 5
European Starling X
Song Sparrow 1