A really good day today at the seawatch: 38,444 migrants! A nice steady movement of birds throughout the day with big numbers of cormorants and scoters. Unfortunately, many of the birds were far away in the heat shimmer, although as the day wore on some did get closer.
There were quite a few highlights today. These included 3 Northern Shovelers, 4 Common Eiders, 37 White-winged Scoters, 5 Long-tailed Ducks, 20 Bufflehead and 3 Horned Grebes. A Merlin caught a Hermit Thrush over the water and carried it in right over our heads, and an Eastern Towhee landed on the jetty.
A list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
38,444 migrants today.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 11/1/10
Number of species: 64
Brant 358
Canada Goose 25
Wood Duck 88
American Wigeon 2
American Black Duck 20
Mallard 8
Northern Shoveler 3
Northern Pintail 18
Green-winged Teal 143
Greater Scaup 29
Lesser Scaup 9
Common Eider 4
Surf Scoter 10267
White-winged Scoter 37
Black Scoter 8346
Surf/Black Scoter 2030
Long-tailed Duck 5
Bufflehead 20
Hooded Merganser 1
Red-breasted Merganser 7
Red-throated Loon 363
Common Loon 16
Horned Grebe 3
Northern Gannet 478
Double-crested Cormorant 10242
Great Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 3
Turkey Vulture 10
Osprey 1
Northern Harrier 4
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 3
Black-bellied Plover 20
American Oystercatcher 15
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Sanderling 30
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 50
Bonaparte's Gull 7
Laughing Gull 20
Ring-billed Gull 6
Herring Gull 50
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Forster's Tern 2
Royal Tern 10
Rock Pigeon X
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling X
American Pipit 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 9
Eastern Towhee 1
Song Sparrow 2
Swamp Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco 7
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 2
blackbird sp. 1
Pine Siskin 1
American Goldfinch 4
House Sparrow 20
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