Today was a very nice day of migration again at the seawatch. Nothing like yesterday's numbers or diversity, but still a good total of birds. Over 11,000 scoters and 5,000 Double-crested Cormorants made up the vast majority of counted migrants. Numbers were good early, but then died, with sporadic migrants the rest of the day.
Highlights today included the first two Long-tailed Ducks of the fall (one male, one female) and 11 White-winged Scoters. A Belted Kingfisher was heard and then seen well out over the ocean!
A list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
17,315 migrants today.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 10/25/10
Number of species: 44
Brant 16 hanging out by the jetty
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 1
Northern Pintail 4
Green-winged Teal 86
Ring-necked Duck 2
Greater Scaup 5
Lesser Scaup 2
Surf Scoter 8517
White-winged Scoter 11
Black Scoter 2786
Surf/Black Scoter 70
Long-tailed Duck 2
Red-breasted Merganser 13Red-throated Loon 61
Common Loon 42
Northern Gannet 525
Double-crested Cormorant 5050
Great Cormorant 2
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover X
Semipalmated Plover X
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Sanderling 20
Bonaparte's Gull 2
Laughing Gull 25
Ring-billed Gull 23
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Forster's Tern 21
Royal Tern 28
Rock Pigeon X
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin X
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 50
American Pipit 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
Song Sparrow 2
House Sparrow 25
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