Avalon Seawatch - 19 October 2011

The seawatch today was very slow. Between the rain and fog, plus a lack of birds, it made for a long day. The highlights were 7 Brown Pelicans, 3 Parasitic Jaegers, and a White-winged Scoter and Northern Shoveler that were traveling together.

Northern Shoveler - 1

scaup sp. - 1

Surf Scoter - 69

White-winged Scoter - 1

Black Scoter - 26

Common Loon - 1

Northern Gannet - 6

Brown Pelican - 7

Double-crested Cormorant -2

Great Cormorant - 1

Laughing Gull - 187

Ring-billed Gull - 5

Herring Gull - 36

Great Black-backed Gull - 58

Caspian Tern - 4

Forster's Tern - 6

Royal Tern - 37

Parasitic Jaeger - 3

Total - 451