It was a nice sunny day at Avalon. Although it seemed like a slow day the total tally had today's count at almost 11,000 birds; how did I survive those first days of less than a hundred birds?
Today was the first day in which the North Gannet count broke 1,000 birds and also today we had a disproprtionate number of Black Scoter coming through in comparison to the usually equally populous Surf Scoter.
Below is a list of today's birds.
Brant 8
American Black Duck 11
Green-winged Teal 38
Ring-necked Duck 2
Common Eider 1
Surf Scoter 501
White-winged Scoter 1
Black Scoter 4,624
dark-winged scoter sp. 438
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Red-throated Loon 47
Common Loon 8
Northern Gannet 1803
Double-crested Cormorant 3264
Great Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 2
Laughing Gull 44
Ring-billed Gull 7
Herring Gull 23
Great Black-backed Gull 31
Caspian Tern 2
Forster's Tern 24
Royal Tern 9
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