Avalon Seawatch, 9 December 2016

It was a very cold day at the seawatch.  The winds blew from the northwest today at 12mph with cloud coverage that built up throughout the day.  There was a consistent flight of Canada geese, 391 flew by making it our highest single day count of geese so far this season!  The top species seen today were Northern Gannet, Canada Goose, and a mix of scoters.  The total number of birds seen today was 2,447.  Check out the chart below for the full data set.

Avalon Seawatch count for 12/9/2016
Species	Count today	Season total	Season maximum
			Count	Date(s)
Black Duck	28	1479	246	10/24/2016
Black Scoter	56	175276	15583	11/24/2016
Brant	31	2483	305	11/23/2016
Canada Goose	391	1597	391	12/9/2016
Common Loon	3	1440	376	10/24/2016
Double-crested Cormorant	142	147266	10151	10/11/2016
Greater Scaup	1	738	101	11/5/2016
Green-winged Teal (American)	11	7504	1758	10/27/2016
Hooded Merganser	4	174	80	11/22/2016
Horned Grebe	2	58	18	11/22/2016
Laughing Gull	5	19315	1592	11/1/2016
Lesser Scaup	2	542	89	11/5/2016
Long-tailed Duck	16	402	144	11/22/2016
Mallard	45	233	58	11/22/2016
Northern Gannet	1103	58992	6143	11/24/2016
Northern Pintail	9	2125	668	10/18/2016
Red-breasted Merganser	11	670	122	12/5/2016
Red-throated Loon	55	66446	7293	11/24/2016
Ring-billed Gull	53	7193	1515	11/22/2016
scoter sp.	297	40512	6858	11/7/2016
Surf Scoter	12	90845	10310	11/1/2016
Surf/Black Scoter	167	33630	4115	11/1/2016
Wood Duck	3	771	207	11/1/2016

Our total number of birds seen so far this season is 743,475, which surpasses the 700,000 bird average we generally see each year! The seawatch is ending on the 22nd, so come visit us soon between 8th and 9th street in Avalon!