Evening shearwater flight, Amagansett - 3 Jul 2009

There was a nice flight of shearwaters off Amagansett (Suffolk Co.) this evening. During a 1-hour count (6:48-7:48pm) I clicked off the following:

CORY'S SHEARWATER - 442
GREAT SHEARWATER - 14
large shearwater sp. - 17
SOOTY SHEARWATER - 1
MANX SHEARWATER - 1
WILSON'S STORM-PETREL - 22
Northern Gannet - 7
Laughing Gull - 2

A large ocean sunfish (mola mola) drifted east fairly close to the shore but was unseen by the beach goers. The gannets and Sooty Shearwater were traveling west, everything else was headed east, with some of the Cory's pausing to raft for a few minutes directly offshore.