Avalon Seawatch September 28, 2010

Another pretty slow day today at the seawatch. Fairly strong south winds all day were not conducive to migration for most birds. The only birds that were moving today in any numbers were gulls and terns. Quite a few Laughing Gulls, Common Terns, and a lot of Royal Terns were migrating.

Other highlights today included two Osprey coming in off the water with huge fish, and a Peregrine Falcon bombing around the area multiple times. A White-throated Sparrow spent the day hanging out in the pines next to the seawatch, the first I have seen this fall.

A list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:

Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 9/28/10
Number of species: 26

Canada Goose 8
Surf Scoter 2
Black Scoter 11
Northern Gannet 8
Brown Pelican 2
Double-crested Cormorant X
Osprey X
Peregrine Falcon X
Semipalmated Plover 5
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Sanderling 50
Least Sandpiper 2
Laughing Gull 76
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 53
Caspian Tern 2
Common Tern 50
Forster's Tern 52
Royal Tern 176
Mourning Dove 6
Tree Swallow 65
Northern Mockingbird 1
White-throated Sparrow 1
House Sparrow X

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