Gannets and Gulls were the name of the game today at the Seawatch. Red-throated Loons still put on a good show, but dabbling ducks and scoters were notably absent. If the data we have is correct then the single day Northern Gannet record got broken by about 30%. 2 Blue-winged Teals and a flock of 11 Common Eiders (8 of which were adult males) were the waterfowl highlights, and a group of 7 Snow Buntings coming off the water and continuing south were my first of the season.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 11/10/09
Number of species: 42
Snow Goose 1
Brant (Atlantic) 9
American Black Duck 2
Blue-winged Teal 2
Greater Scaup 11
Lesser Scaup 16
Common Eider 11
Surf Scoter 406
White-winged Scoter 3
Black Scoter 592
Long-tailed Duck 8
Bufflehead 5
Red-breasted Merganser 2
Red-throated Loon 1172
Common Loon 6
Horned Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 9437
Double-crested Cormorant 452
Great Cormorant 3
Northern Harrier 1
Black-bellied Plover 1
Killdeer 1
Sanderling 25
Purple Sandpiper 7
Dunlin 75
Bonaparte's Gull 93
Laughing Gull 1053
Ring-billed Gull 487
Herring Gull 139
Great Black-backed Gull 49
Forster's Tern 37
Royal Tern 11
Parasitic Jaeger 3
American Robin 3
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling X
American Pipit 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 15
Dark-eyed Junco 2
Snow Bunting 7
Boat-tailed Grackle 1
House Sparrow X
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