It was a rather quiet day today at the seawatch numbers-wise, but as always, there was still plenty to watch and count. Northern Gannets moved through in big numbers this morning, some Double-crested Cormorants moved early, and scoters moved in small numbers throughout the day.
Highlights today were 2 White-winged Scoters, 2 Common Eiders, and 31 Black Skimmers. The bird of the day for me was a male Harlequin Duck that was leading a small group of scoters right down the bar.
A list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
9,100 migrants today.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 10/26/10
Number of species: 49
Brant 1
Wood Duck 1
American Wigeon 2
American Black Duck 7
Mallard 1
Northern Pintail 10
Green-winged Teal 3
Greater Scaup 19
Lesser Scaup 10
Common Eider 2
Harlequin Duck 1
Surf Scoter 3674
White-winged Scoter 2
Black Scoter 881
Surf/Black Scoter 15
Red-throated Loon 31
Common Loon 36
Horned Grebe 2
Northern Gannet 2286
Brown Pelican 8
Double-crested Cormorant 1713
Great Cormorant 1
Turkey Vulture 5
Northern Harrier 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover 7
Semipalmated Plover 5
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Sanderling 20
Dunlin 30
Laughing Gull 188
Ring-billed Gull 23
Herring Gull 24
Great Black-backed Gull 12
Forster's Tern 63
Royal Tern 49
Black Skimmer 31
Rock Pigeon 30
Northern Flicker 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 30
Yellow-rumped Warbler 5
Palm Warbler 1
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 1
House Sparrow 15
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