Amagansett Seawatch - 21 May 2009

The wind direction was not ideal this evening but there was some movement on the ocean. A 1-hour seawatch (6:25-7:25 pm) from Amagansett (Town of East Hampton, Suffolk Co.) produced the following seabirds traveling east:

SOOTY SHEARWATER - 5
Northern Gannet - 284
Common Loon - 3
Red-throated - 2
loon sp. - 2
BLACK TERN - 1
Common Tern - 25
Laughing Gull - 1
Dc Cormorant - 2

Typical of the date, the gannets were all sub-adults, most in various degrees of brown.