Barnegat Light

We finally made it to Barnegat Lighttoday to see the sea birds. We try to go every year to see the birds that overwinter there and while we were later in the year than usual, we managed to see most of what we were expecting, though not in the numbers we are used to. We saw harlequin ducksand cormorants, common eiders, brandt, pintails, herring gulls, greater black-backed gulls, a female red-breasted merganser, a couple surf scoters, and one loon whose plummage was changing to the summer black and white. I wonder if he is on his way to the Adirondacks. We were also very surprised to see a young seal pulled up on the beach.