Sea Watch, Wednesday December 16, 2009

Today was a beautiful sunny day at Avalon, with a breeze out of the WNW making for a slightly chilly day.

The WNW wind brought a good movement of geese, (Snow, Canada, and Brant), as well as a good movement of cormorants and scoter.

The only bird seen today of special note was a Killdeer that fly by south directly above me, so I got a good look at the double black bands on its neck.

Here is the list of birds seen today:

Snow Geese 288
Canada Goose 890
Brant 187
American Black Duck 30
Mallard 1
Green-winged Teal 8
Lesser Scaup 1
Scaup sp. 5
Common Eider 2
Surf Scoter 418
White-winged Scoter 3
Black Scoter 674
Long-tailed Duck 63
Bufflehead 2
Hooded Merganser 2
Red-breasted Merganser 32
Red-throated Loon 350
Common Loon 13
Northern Gannet 979
Great Blue Heron 1
Bonaparte's Gull 9
Ring-billed Gull 218
Herring Gull 274
Great Black-backed Gull 22
Killdeer 1

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