Avalon Seawatch - 27 October 2011

The seawatch was decent with a good flow of surf scoter and gannets for the day. Highlights were 2 Brown Pelicans, a Ruddy Duck, and a Parasitic Jaeger. The most amazing sight of the day was seeing a Yellow-billed Cuckoo perching on the rocks of the seawall in front of us at about 3:30, which obviously just reached land! Then about a half hour later, Clay Sutton picked up another in flight over the bar, headed west and we watched it fly all the way in to the Townsend's Inlet beach!

Brant - 12

Wood Duck - 52

American Wigeon - 6

American Black Duck - 103

Mallard - 4

Northern Pintail - 54

Green-winged Teal - 117

puddle duck spp - 10

Ring-necked Duck - 3

Greater Scaup - 1

Lesser Scaup - 7

Surf Scoter - 11545

Black Scoter - 249

Red-breasted Merganser - 1

Ruddy Duck - 1

Red-throated Loon - 23

Common Loon - 44

Northern Gannet - 1712

Brown Pelican - 2

Double-crested Cormorant - 2058

Great Blue Heron - 25

Great Egret - 5

Laughing Gull - 119

Bonaparte's Gull - 2

Ring-billed Gull - 16

Herring Gull - 57

Great Black-backed Gull - 95

Caspian Tern - 1

Common Tern - 16

Forster's Tern - 81

Royal Tern - 43

Parasitic Jaeger - 1

Total - 16465