Another steady day of migration today at the seawatch, with some exciting highlights. Nice variety of ducks throughout the day, with lots of Double-crested Cormorants, scoters, and Northern Gannets.
Highlights today included 249 Wood Ducks, 2 Common Eider, 6 Ring-necked Ducks, 8 White-winged Scoters, 2 Long-tailed Ducks, 14 Bufflehead, and 11 Bonaparte's Gulls. Two Common Terns were a nice late addition. The flock of the day was definitely a bizarre one: 1 Bufflehead with 12 Ruddy Ducks that whirred past!
A list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
12,372 migrants today.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 10/30/10
Number of species: 67
Brant 163
Canada Goose 32
Wood Duck 249
American Wigeon 1
American Black Duck 15
Mallard 4
Northern Shoveler 1
Northern Pintail 10
Green-winged Teal 322
Ring-necked Duck 6
Greater Scaup 6
Lesser Scaup 4
Common Eider 2
Surf Scoter 4138
White-winged Scoter 8
Black Scoter 1243
Surf/Black Scoter 840
Long-tailed Duck 2
Bufflehead 14
Red-breasted Merganser 23
Red-throated Loon 194
Common Loon 43
Northern Gannet 517
Double-crested Cormorant 4124
Great Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 2
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 45
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 3
Northern Harrier 4
Peregrine Falcon 2
American Coot 1
Black-bellied Plover 13
Semipalmated Plover 2
Killdeer 1
American Oystercatcher 50
Willet 1
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Red Knot 2
Sanderling 12
Dunlin 20
Bonaparte's Gull 11
Laughing Gull 84
Ring-billed Gull 31
Herring Gull 18
Great Black-backed Gull X
Common Tern 2
Forster's Tern 123
Royal Tern 48
Rock Pigeon 30
Northern Flicker 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 5
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 30
American Pipit 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 45
Palm Warbler 1
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Boat-tailed Grackle 6
American Goldfinch 10
House Sparrow 30
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