Little Talbot Ocean Watch 1/12/09

Little Talbot Island State Park Ocean Watch – January 12, 2009

Northeast winds 15 to 20 knots; 52 degrees; overcast skies

Hooded Merganser 3
Northern Gannet 175
Brown Pelican 25
Double-crested Cormorant 30
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 3
Osprey 1
Black-bellied Plover 1
Ruddy Turnstone 7
Red Knot 22 – fly by north boardwalk at 14:00
Sanderling 25
Pomarine Jaeger 2 – year bird
Parasitic Jaeger 6Laughing Gull 500
Ring-billed Gull 50
Herring Gull 65
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Royal Tern 10
Sandwich Tern 1 – year bird
Forster’s Tern 65
Black Skimmer 80

Exit for 9A north/I-95 ponds, Jacksonville, FL

American Coot 450
Ring-necked Duck 15

Greater Scaup 1 male – year bird