It was another blustery day at the seawatch today but a very enjoyable one with nice diversity of migrants.
Hundreds of Bonaparte's Gulls were milling about all day, and a beautiful male Harlequin Duck was sitting out front in the morning. Other highlights were good numbers of both scaup species, 4 Tundra Swans, and 6 Common Goldeneye.
An eBird list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
3,486 migrants today.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 12/7/10
Number of species: 48
Snow Goose 136
Brant 200
Canada Goose 1855
Tundra Swan 4
Wood Duck 15
American Wigeon 3
American Black Duck 7
Mallard 7
Green-winged Teal 3
Greater Scaup 49
Lesser Scaup 61
Common Eider 20
Harlequin Duck 1
Surf Scoter 111
White-winged Scoter 1
Black Scoter 98
Surf/Black Scoter 13
Long-tailed Duck 51
Bufflehead 41
Common Goldeneye 6
Hooded Merganser 7
Red-breasted Merganser 18
Red-throated Loon 217
Common Loon 3
Northern Gannet 107
Double-crested Cormorant 8
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 5
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover 2
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Sanderling 16
Purple Sandpiper 10
Dunlin 20
Bonaparte's Gull 333
Ring-billed Gull 89
Herring Gull 29
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Rock Pigeon 30
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 75
Song Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco 2
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle X
Boat-tailed Grackle X
House Finch 3
House Sparrow 20
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