As the seemingly sleepy town of Avalon woke up this holiday and took a walk or car ride to look out on the calm ocean I can't help but think what these people thought of finding me staring through a scope. For those who were curious enough to see if I was looking through camera or something, I enlightened them to the doings, history, and why of the Sea Watch.
Today I was thankful for the improvement in the movement of birds headin south over yesterday's numbers. We hit a new mile marker for the record number of Eider we are having this season; today we topped 500 Common Eider.
But the bird that I am truly thankful that showed up this holiday was the Black-legged Kittiwake that showed itself off rather nicely going across the bar and then south of the jetty.
Here are the rest of the birds seen this Thanksgiving day:
Brant 165
American Black Duck 42
Great Scaup 1
Common Eider 30
Surf Scoter 310
White-winged Scoter 13
Black Scoter 422
Long-tailed Duck 4
Red-breasted Merganser 4
Bufflehead 2
Red-throated Loon 904
Common Loon 54
Northern Gannet 51
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Laughing Gull 50
Bonaparte's Gull 10
Ring-billed Gull 164
Herring Gull 61
Great Black-backed Gull 9
Black-legged Kittiwake 1
American Oystercatcher 1
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