Date: 10/26/25 8:05 am
From: <jerrymcw...> <0000001b5c226889-dmarc-request...>
Subject: Erie County waterbird count for October 26, 2025
Location: Sunset Point, PresqueIsle State Park

Date: October 26, 2025

Time: 0740 to 0940 AM

Weather: Mostly clear, NE wind to10 mph, waves 1’ to 2’, 45 F.

Comments: There was a light, butsteady movement of westbound waterfowl, mostly scaup.  There was a fair number of scoters and a nicespecies diversity as well. Cormorants were coming across the lake from Canada.  Highlight was an eastbound Red-necked Grebefar offshore.

 

Waterbirds recorded:

 
Canada Goose  2Gadwall  8Green-winged Teal  10Lesser Scaup  1Scaup species  172Surf Scoter  9White-winged Scoter  22Black Scoter  3Surf/Black scoter  15Long-tailed Duck  2Bufflehead  5Common Goldeneye  2Common Merganser  2Red-breasted Merganser  10Sanderling  1Horned Grebe  7RED-NECKED GREBE  1Common Loon  18Loon species  5Double-crested Cormorant  156
 

Other bird moving along the lake:

 
Bald Eagle 1
Jerry McWilliamsErie, Erie County, <Pa.jerrymcw...>

 
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