A fairly slow day today at the seawatch. However, if it weren't for Northern Gannets and Red-throated Loons, it would have been very slow. These two species accounted for more than one half of the total migrants counted.
Today's highlights were 10 Northern Shovelers, 32 White-winged Scoters, 1 adult Great Cormorant, and 1 Razorbill.
The count for the season today passed over the 750,000 mark!
An eBird list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
5,017 migrants today.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 11/30/10
Number of species: 36
Brant 6
American Black Duck 1
Northern Shoveler 10
Green-winged Teal 1
Greater Scaup 4
Lesser Scaup 4
Common Eider 8
Surf Scoter 981
White-winged Scoter 32
Black Scoter 469
Surf/Black Scoter 10
Long-tailed Duck 5
Red-breasted Merganser 104
Red-throated Loon 1448
Common Loon 4
Northern Gannet 1761
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Cormorant 1
Ruddy Turnstone 5
Sanderling 10
Purple Sandpiper 7
Dunlin 20
Bonaparte's Gull 13
Laughing Gull 101
Ring-billed Gull 37
Herring Gull 9
Great Black-backed Gull X
Razorbill 1
Rock Pigeon 10
Mourning Dove 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 30
Song Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 2
Northern Cardinal 1
House Sparrow 10
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