It was a pretty good day today at the seawatch. Lots of Wood Ducks (177!) passed by today, along with impressive numbers of Double-crested Cormorants, Northern Gannets, and scoters.
Highlights were 94 Snow Geese, 3 White-winged Scoters, and 3 Parasitic Jaegers.
A list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
17,041 migrants today.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 10/17/10
Number of species: 71
Snow Goose 94
Brant 79
Canada Goose 71
Wood Duck 177
Gadwall 1
American Wigeon 1
American Black Duck 10
Mallard 2
Blue-winged Teal 1
Northern Pintail 40
Green-winged Teal 287
Greater Scaup 8
Common Eider 5 going North
Surf Scoter 1002
White-winged Scoter 3
Black Scoter 6128
Surf/Black Scoter 60
Red-breasted Merganser 10
Red-throated Loon 18
Common Loon 33
Northern Gannet 799
Double-crested Cormorant 7801
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 9
Great Egret X
Snowy Egret X
Turkey Vulture 4
Bald Eagle 1
Northern Harrier 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 2
Black-bellied Plover 15
Semipalmated Plover 4
Killdeer 1
American Oystercatcher X
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 10
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 20
Laughing Gull 235
Ring-billed Gull 13
Herring Gull 68
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern 3
Forster's Tern 375
Royal Tern 51
Black Skimmer 12
Parasitic Jaeger 3
Rock Pigeon X
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 3
Tree Swallow 300
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
American Robin 5
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 100
American Pipit 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 29
Palm Warbler 1
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 6
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Boat-tailed Grackle 2
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 25
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