Avalon Seawatch November 23, 2010

Today was a pretty slow day at the seawatch. It started off sunny with clouds building throughout the day. It was also quite warm! Northern Gannets and Red-throated Loons were once again moving early and by the end of the day were virtually the only species migrating.

Highlights included a flock of 4 Horned Grebes and 7 White-winged Scoters.

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

5,129 migrants today.

American Black Duck 3
Greater Scaup 1
Lesser Scaup 6
Surf Scoter 327
White-winged Scoter 7
Black Scoter 314
Surf/Black Scoter 90
Red-breasted Merganser 31
Red-throated Loon 1858
Horned Grebe 4
Northern Gannet 2133
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Northern Harrier 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Sanderling 12
Purple Sandpiper 5
Dunlin 10
Bonaparte's Gull 77
Laughing Gull 63
Ring-billed Gull 44
Herring Gull 58
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Royal Tern 4
Rock Pigeon 9
Mourning Dove 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 100
American Pipit 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
Song Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco 1
House Finch 1
Pine Siskin 1
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 10

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