Avalon was almost completely socked in with fog and haze for the first couple of hours this morning, making for "interesting" conditions for watching the water, although all the silhouette viewing was very instructive. The highlight for me as watching a Greater Snow Goose barrel by on the ocean while not doing a very good job blending into a mixed Scoter flock.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 11/9/09
Notes: Low Visibility, especially early (<1 mile for the first 2 hours).
Number of species: 39
Snow Goose 1
Brant 5
Wood Duck 12
Gadwall 16
American Wigeon 3
American Black Duck 32
Northern Pintail 2
Green-winged Teal 10
Greater Scaup 12
Lesser Scaup 2
Common Eider 3
Surf Scoter 1546
Black Scoter 4636
dark-winged scoter sp. 520
Long-tailed Duck 7
Bufflehead 7
Hooded Merganser 7
Red-breasted Merganser 23
Red-throated Loon 1416
Common Loon 8
Northern Gannet 2287
Double-crested Cormorant 302
Great Cormorant 2
Semipalmated Plover 3
Sanderling 8
Purple Sandpiper 4
Dunlin 2
Bonaparte's Gull 8
Laughing Gull 195
Ring-billed Gull 162
Herring Gull 48
Great Black-backed Gull 39
Royal Tern 8
Rock Pigeon X
European Starling X
Song Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco 1
Red-winged Blackbird 15
House Finch 2
House Sparrow X
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