Avalon Seawatch October 19, 2010

Another fun day at the seawatch today. It was a day that kept me on my toes, as there were definite spurts and lulls of activity. Scoters and cormorants were again the birds that moved in numbers, along with a sprinkling of other species.

Highlights were 14 White-winged Scoters (8 of which were together in a large scoter flock), 4 Blue-winged Teal, and 17 Greater Scaup. A lone female King Eider flew south at the end of the day, which was really awesome.

As hard as it is to believe, the calendar says it is getting toward the end of October, and that means it is time for some serious numbers to be passing the seawatch. I hope to see many of you up there in the next few weeks, along with lots of birds!

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

12,702 migrants today.

Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 10/19/10
Number of species: 56

Brant 113
Canada Goose 9
Wood Duck 5
American Wigeon 6
American Black Duck 6
Blue-winged Teal 4
Northern Pintail 3
Green-winged Teal 80
Greater Scaup 17
Lesser Scaup 3
King Eider 1
Surf Scoter 2064
White-winged Scoter 14
Black Scoter 3519
Surf/Black Scoter 520
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Red-throated Loon 16
Common Loon 14
Northern Gannet 136
Brown Pelican 11
Double-crested Cormorant 5982
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 7
Turkey Vulture 6
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Peregrine Falcon 2
Black-bellied Plover X
Semipalmated Plover X
American Oystercatcher 90
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Sanderling 20
Dunlin 100
Laughing Gull 63
Ring-billed Gull 33
Herring Gull 20
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Caspian Tern 15
Forster's Tern X
Royal Tern 24
Rock Pigeon X
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
crow sp. 4
Tree Swallow 100
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 4
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling X
Yellow-rumped Warbler 20
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 45
House Sparrow 20

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