Avalon Seawatch October 12, 2010

A relatively slow but still very enjoyable day today at the seawatch. A quiet day on the cormorant front, with less than 500 migrants compared to over two thousand scoters. Action started to pick up a bit in the late afternoon with a nice collection of dabbling ducks and some nice lines of scoters.

Highlights today included 11 American Wigeon, 5 Northern Shovelers, 2 Greater Scaup, 1 White-winged Scoter, and 1 Parasitic Jaeger. A male Common Eider passed going north. A Red-throated Loon (one of three counted today) dropped down briefly in front of the watch before continuing south, and a Dickcissel appeared with the group of House Sparrows that frequent the pines next to the watch.

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

3,446 migrants today.

Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 10/12/10
Number of species: 56

Brant 1 going north
Wood Duck 1
American Wigeon 11
American Black Duck 41
Mallard 2
Blue-winged Teal 4
Northern Shoveler 5
Northern Pintail 15
Green-winged Teal 130
Greater Scaup 2
Common Eider 1 going north
Surf Scoter 579
White-winged Scoter 1
Black Scoter 1680
Surf/Black Scoter 10
Red-throated Loon 3
Common Loon 5
Northern Gannet 308
Brown Pelican 5
Double-crested Cormorant 459
Great Egret X
Osprey 3
Cooper's Hawk 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover 60
Semipalmated Plover 5
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Sanderling 35
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Dunlin 5
Laughing Gull 149
Ring-billed Gull 6
Herring Gull 4
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern 6
Forster's Tern 2
Royal Tern 16
Black Skimmer 1
Parasitic Jaeger 1
Rock Pigeon X
Northern Flicker 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling X
Yellow-rumped Warbler 7
Palm Warbler 1
Song Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Dickcissel 1
House Sparrow 20

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