Avalon Seawatch November 12, 2010

A windy, salty, but sunny and warmer day at the seawatch today. Not a ton of movement, but a fairly consistent trickle of migrants all day.

Highlights included 161 White-winged Scoters, 1 Great Cormorant, and a Ruddy Duck in a scoter flock.

An eBird list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:

7,519 migrants today.

Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 11/12/10
Number of species: 46

Brant 108
Canada Goose 4
Wood Duck 2
American Wigeon 2
American Black Duck 6
Northern Pintail 5
Green-winged Teal 6
Greater Scaup 15
Lesser Scaup 2
Common Eider 7
Surf Scoter 1885
White-winged Scoter 161
Black Scoter 3413
Surf/Black Scoter 110
Red-breasted Merganser 70
Red-throated Loon 279
Common Loon 14
Northern Gannet 181
Double-crested Cormorant 387
Great Cormorant 1
Turkey Vulture X
Black-bellied Plover 15
Semipalmated Plover 1
American Oystercatcher 2
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Sanderling 15
Purple Sandpiper 6
Dunlin 30
Laughing Gull 7
Ring-billed Gull 22
Herring Gull 50
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Royal Tern 5
Mourning Dove 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling X
American Pipit 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
Song Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 2
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Brown-headed Cowbird 25
House Finch 1
House Sparrow 25

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