Today was a very enjoyable day at the seawatch! A decent movement of scoters materialized along with an impressive count for Red-throated Loons and Northern Gannet.
Highlights today included a late Brown Pelican, 5 Tundra Swans, 18 Hooded Mergansers, and 1 Great Cormorant.
An eBird list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
13,365 migrants today.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 11/19/10
Number of species: 53
Brant 11
Canada Goose 26
Tundra Swan 5
Wood Duck 46
American Black Duck 26
Northern Pintail 9
Green-winged Teal 22
Greater Scaup 8
Lesser Scaup 1
Common Eider 9
Surf Scoter 993
White-winged Scoter 15
Black Scoter 3203
Surf/Black Scoter 260
Long-tailed Duck 9
Bufflehead 87
Hooded Merganser 18
Red-breasted Merganser 74
Red-throated Loon 1942
Common Loon 6
Horned Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 4406
Brown Pelican 1
Double-crested Cormorant 303
Great Cormorant 1
Turkey Vulture 12
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Black-bellied Plover 8
Semipalmated Plover 3
American Oystercatcher 16
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Red Knot 4
Sanderling 12
Purple Sandpiper 3
Dunlin 25
Bonaparte's Gull 9
Laughing Gull 21
Ring-billed Gull 66
Herring Gull 369
Great Black-backed Gull X
Royal Tern 2
Rock Pigeon 6
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 20
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Song Sparrow 1
Snow Bunting 12
Red-winged Blackbird 9
Pine Siskin 1
American Goldfinch 12
House Sparrow 10
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