Another slow day for the date at the seawatch today. Slightly better than yesterday, with 2,742 migrants counted.
Highlights today included 3 Greater Scaup, 2 Lesser Scaup, 14 White-winged Scoters, and 3 Great Cormorants. There was a nice flock of scoters in front of the jetty that today included all three species of scoter, 12 Common Eiders (two more than yesterday), and 1 Greater Scaup.
An eBird list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
2,742 migrants today.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 11/6/10
Number of species: 39
Brant 11
Canada Goose 2
American Black Duck 11
Mallard 1
Green-winged Teal 1
Greater Scaup 3
Lesser Scaup 2
Common Eider 12
Surf Scoter 666
White-winged Scoter 14
Black Scoter 252
Surf/Black Scoter 84
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Red-throated Loon 137
Common Loon 12
Northern Gannet 388
Double-crested Cormorant 1017
Great Cormorant 3
Turkey Vulture 3
Peregrine Falcon 1
Sanderling 15
Purple Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 30
Laughing Gull 51
Ring-billed Gull 25
Herring Gull 49
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Forster's Tern 1
Royal Tern 8
Rock Pigeon 10
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
European Starling 75
American Pipit 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Pine Siskin 4
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 25
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