Sunday 4 May 2008

4th May 2008 Kodiak Island. Heavy rain all day.

Kindly met by Donna Hurley and her friends Rich and Shirley who took us birding for the day despite the heavy rain.

Great Northern Diver 3
Red-necked Grebe 2
Slavonian Grebe 20
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 5
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Pelagic Cormorant 5
Swan sp. 2 very distant Whistling/Trumpeter
White-fronted Goose 200
Emperor Goose 160 ex.
Greater Canada Goose 3
Taverner's Canada Goose 20
Dusky Canada Goose 1
Aleutian Canada Goose 6
Cackling Canada Goose 1
Black Brant 750
Snow Goose 1
Eurasian Wigeon 2
American Wigeon 10
Green-winged Teal 150
Mallard 100
Pintail 2,000
Shoveler 200
Ring-necked Duck 3
Scaup 100
Lesser Scaup 2
Harlequin Duck 100
Long-tailed Duck 12
Black Scoter 250
Surf Scoter 75
American White-winged Scoter 75
Bufflehead 100
Goldeneye 6
Barrow's Goldeneye 12 ex.
Red-breasted Merganser 30
Goosander 25
Bald Eagle 20
Black Oystercatcher 25
Pacific Golden Plover 10
Grey Plover 1
Least Sandpiper 2
Rock Sandpiper 40 ex.
Dunlin 80
Wilson's Snipe 2
Short-billed Dowitcher 15
Marbled Godwit 1
Hudsonian Whimbrel 10
Greater Yellowlegs 12
Black Turnstone 20
Turnstone 6
Surfbird 2
Red-necked Phalarope 250
Pomarine Skua 1
Sabine's Gull 3
American Herring Gull 1
Glaucous-winged Gull 350
Glaucous Gull 2
Kittiwake 1,000
Mew Gull 50
Arctic Tern 2
Guillemot 2
Pigeon Guillemot 15
Marbled Murrelet 3
Rhinoceros Auklet 12
Tufted Puffin 75
Black-backed Wagtail 1
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Magpie 6
Raven 1
Northwestern Crow 15
Savannah Sparrow 1
Golden-crowned Sparrow 1