Not quite a day that will live in infamy, but it was an interesting flight at Avalon nonetheless, starting out with low numbers and decent diversity and changing over to high numbers but mostly of Gannets and Red-throated Loons. A flock of 17 White-winged Scoters was the most of them I've seen together so far this season. Singles of Parasitic Jaeger and Forster's Tern were nice birds for the date, and 3 Common Goldeneye included my first male of the season.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 12/7/09
Notes: WNW/W/WSW Winds
Number of species: 34
Brant 43
Canada Goose 6
Wood Duck 1
American Wigeon 5
American Black Duck 22
Mallard 29
Northern Shoveler 11
Green-winged Teal 118
Lesser Scaup 1
Aythya sp. 15
Common Eider 17 One male flying north
Surf Scoter 686
White-winged Scoter 26
Black Scoter 1162
dark-winged scoter sp. 623
Long-tailed Duck 41
Bufflehead 8
Common Goldeneye 3
Hooded Merganser 9
Red-breasted Merganser 27
duck sp. 23
Red-throated Loon 1995
Common Loon 15 (7 migrants, the rest sitting on the water)
Northern Gannet 8003
Double-crested Cormorant 195
Great Cormorant 1
Turkey Vulture 15
Peregrine Falcon 1
Semipalmated Plover 2+
Sanderling 30
Purple Sandpiper 10
Dunlin 600
Bonaparte's Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 196
Herring Gull 358
Great Black-backed Gull 109
Forster's Tern 1
Parasitic Jaeger 1
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