Thanks to a constant movement of Double-crested Cormorants throughout, it wasn't as slow a day as it could have been at the Seawatch. The species highlights of the day were a single White-winged Scoter winging it's way southward with 11 Surf Scoters, and no less than 5 Great Cormorants passing by rather close. Of course, since thousands of Cormorants passed extremely far away, there were most likely a few more GRCOs that went undetected. Peregrine Falcons were on the move all day, and at least 12 were seen from the Seawatch, including one who successfully hunted for Sanderling at the end of the Jetty.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 10/6/10
Number of species: 52
Brant (Atlantic) 6
American Black Duck 10
Northern Pintail 12
Green-winged Teal 2
Surf Scoter 41
White-winged Scoter 1
Black Scoter 46
Surf/Black Scoter 2
Common Loon 19
Northern Gannet 363
Brown Pelican 16
Double-crested Cormorant 7643
Great Blue Heron 13
Great Egret 70 12 Migrants, the rest were in the Townsend's Inlet Heron
Roost.
Tricolored Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 45
Osprey 10
Bald Eagle 5
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Merlin 3
Peregrine Falcon 12
Semipalmated Plover 5
Ruddy Turnstone 6
Sanderling 150
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 3 N-S flybys
Wilson's Snipe 1 Flying in E-W off the Ocean
Laughing Gull 167
Ring-billed Gull 5
Herring Gull 204
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Adult
Great Black-backed Gull 42
Caspian Tern 15
Forster's Tern 70
Royal Tern 17
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Tree Swallow 5000
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 1
European Starling X
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle 2
Boat-tailed Grackle 4
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 10
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