Avalon Seawatch October 31, 2010

A fairly slow halloween today at the seawatch, with 7,361 migrants counted. Although we didn't see huge numbers of birds, we did have a nice diversity of birds including a few treats!

Northern Gannets, Double-crested Cormorants, loons, and scoters were again the main species tallied. The gannet show was a good one today; lots of birds came in close and were delighting visitors all day by diving close to shore.

The bird of the day for me was a single Red-necked Grebe that flew south all by itself in the middle of the afternoon. Other highlight birds included 22 Bufflehead, 19 White-winged Scoters, and 6 (!) Parasitic Jaegers, including 3 in one scope field chasing terns!

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

7,631 migrants today.

Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 10/31/10
Number of species: 60

Brant 107
Canada Goose 19
Wood Duck 25
American Wigeon 3
American Black Duck 88
Mallard 4
Northern Shoveler 1
Northern Pintail 46
Green-winged Teal 42
Greater Scaup 15
Lesser Scaup 4
Common Eider 2 hanging out by the jetty
Surf Scoter 2187
White-winged Scoter 19
Black Scoter 1327
Surf/Black Scoter 140
Bufflehead 22
Red-breasted Merganser 12
Red-throated Loon 116
Common Loon 31
Red-necked Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 875
Double-crested Cormorant 2223
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 10
Turkey Vulture 30
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 3
Northern Harrier 5
Cooper's Hawk 1
Peregrine Falcon 2
Black-bellied Plover 45
American Oystercatcher 25
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Red Knot 2
Sanderling 15
Dunlin 100
Bonaparte's Gull 6
Laughing Gull 105
Ring-billed Gull 54
Herring Gull 49
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Forster's Tern 11
Royal Tern 40
Parasitic Jaeger 6
Rock Pigeon 20
Northern Flicker 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 2
European Starling 100
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
Song Sparrow 1
Swamp Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 3
Northern Cardinal 1
Boat-tailed Grackle 4
Pine Siskin 6
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 15

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