Avalon Seawatch - November 19, 2011

It was a fantastic day at the 7th Street seawall, with over 18,000 migrants tallied. Red-throated Loons performed well throughout the day, particularly early and late. A river of Northern Gannets during the mid-morning was quite the sight, and nearly continuous scoter flocks were fun to pick through, as many contained other species of ducks, Horned Grebes and on one occasion, a Razorbill.

Brant - 10
Wood Duck - 23
American Wigeon - 7
American Black Duck - 62
Mallard - 6
Northern Shoveler - 38
Northern Pintail - 3
Green-winged Teal - 777
Ring-necked Duck - 135
Greater Scaup - 43
Lesser Scaup - 119
scaup, sp. - 56
Surf Scoter - 3,742
White-winged Scoter - 49
Black Scoter - 4,049
dark-winged scoter - 801
scoter, sp. - 172
Long-tailed Duck - 29
Bufflehead - 73
Common Goldeneye - 1
Hooded Merganser - 8
Red-breasted Merganser - 247
Ruddy Duck - 3
Red-throated Loon - 3,390
Common Loon - 14
Horned Grebe - 80
Northern Gannet - 3,992
Double-crested Cormorant - 528
Great Cormorant - 2
Great Blue Heron - 6
Laughing Gull - 56
Bonaparte's Gull - 31
Ring-billed Gull - 80
Herring Gull - 8
Forster's Tern - 34
Royal Tern - 4
Razorbill - 3

(Total = 18,694)

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