Today was much less windy than yesterday at the seawatch, with a few more birds moving as well. The highlight for me today was the local raft of ducks that throughout the day contained Surf, Black, and White-winged Scoters, Brant, Common Loon, 13 Common Eider, a Wood Duck, and a Long-tailed Duck.
Other highlights included an American Wigeon, 39 White-winged Scoters, 4 Bufflehead, 1 Horned Grebe, 1 Brown Pelican, and 2 Great Cormorant.
An eBird list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
5,068 migrants today.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 11/9/10
Number of species: 55
Brant 162
Wood Duck 7
American Wigeon 1
American Black Duck 9
Mallard 1
Green-winged Teal 24
Lesser Scaup 8
Common Eider 1
Surf Scoter 1053
White-winged Scoter 39
Black Scoter 1576
Surf/Black Scoter 32
Long-tailed Duck 2
Bufflehead 4
Red-breasted Merganser 6
Red-throated Loon 129
Common Loon 9
Horned Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 603
Brown Pelican 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1012
Great Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 4
Turkey Vulture 12
Northern Harrier 1
Black-bellied Plover 4
Semipalmated Plover 2
American Oystercatcher 4
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Sanderling 10
Purple Sandpiper 2
Dunlin 20
Bonaparte's Gull 11
Laughing Gull 13
Ring-billed Gull 64
Herring Gull 50
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Forster's Tern 5
Royal Tern 4
Rock Pigeon 20
Mourning Dove 1
Tree Swallow 8
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 4
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 30
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
Song Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 7
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Pine Siskin 2
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 15
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