Sea Watch Thursday October 7, 2010

2,373 Migrants were counted at the Avalon Seawatch today. The bulk of them were Double-crested Cormorants, but a decent showing from Northern Gannets and Great Blue Herons spiced up the flight as well. A single juvenile Great Cormorant took up residence at the Jetty today, and two distant Parasitic Jaegers were nice as well. A Yellow-billed Cuckoo flying in over the Ocean in the afternoon must have been out over the water for a long time before getting back into the inlet.

Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 10/7/10
Number of species: 53

Brant (Atlantic) 8
Canada Goose 57
American Black Duck 12
Blue-winged Teal 1
Northern Pintail 33
Green-winged Teal 1
Surf Scoter 29
Black Scoter 27
Common Loon 10
Northern Gannet 259
Brown Pelican 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1517
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 80
Great Egret 23
Snowy Egret 17

Turkey Vulture 15
Osprey 41
Bald Eagle 3
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 3
Peregrine Falcon 19
Black-bellied Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover 56
American Oystercatcher 95
Ruddy Turnstone 6
Sanderling 125
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 2
peep sp. 3
Laughing Gull 96
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 34
Great Black-backed Gull 83
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 58
Royal Tern 19
Parasitic Jaeger 2

Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Tree Swallow 5000
Barn Swallow 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
American Robin 4
Northern Mockingbird X
European Starling X
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Palm Warbler (Western) 1
Red-winged Blackbird X
Boat-tailed Grackle 2
House Finch 1
House Sparrow 20

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