Avalon Seawatch - October 10, 2011

Monday was nearly a carbon copy of Sunday at Avalon, with similar totals of Double-crested Cormorants, and overall birds. Not much was flying in the afternoon warmth, but bursts of birds during the morning and evening were much appreciated by this counter.

The day's totals follow-

Brant - 15
Wood Duck - 22 (season high count thus far)
American Black Duck - 1
Northern Pintail - 200 (season high count thus far)
Green-winged Teal - 5
Surf Scoter - 98
White-winged Scoter - 1
Black Scoter - 146
dark-winged scoter - 20
Red-throated Loon - 1
Common Loon - 44
Northern Gannet - 14
Brown Pelican - 24
Double-crested Cormorant - 2,702
Great Cormorant - 1
Laughing Gull - 152
Ring-billed Gull - 14
Herring Gull - 7
Great Black-backed Gull - 3
Forster's Tern - 99
Royal Tern - 19
Parasitic Jaeger - 2

Monarch - 589

(Total = 3,590)

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