It was a wonderful day today at the seawatch! The sun was out, the wind was quiet, and it wasn't too cold. There were quite a few birds moving as well. Nice numbers of scoters (especially Black Scoters), Red-throated Loons, and Bonaparte's Gulls dominated the flight.
There were a couple highlights today. First was a Razorbill that went past very close inside the bar; easily the best look I've had this fall. Next, a female Common Merganser flew south with a small group of Red-breasted Mergansers. Finally, a Harbor Seal was seen two times hanging out in front of the jetties.
An eBird list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
5,946 migrants today
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 12/17/10
Number of species: 44
Snow Goose 57
Brant 29
Canada Goose 144
American Black Duck 16
Mallard 8
Greater Scaup 9
Lesser Scaup 1
Common Eider 18 local group
Surf Scoter 727
White-winged Scoter 55
Black Scoter 2589
Surf/Black Scoter 488
Long-tailed Duck 67
Common Goldeneye 1
Common Merganser 1
Red-breasted Merganser 37
Red-throated Loon 327
Common Loon 2
Horned Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 90
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 7
Turkey Vulture 16
Bald Eagle 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Sanderling 5
Purple Sandpiper 45
Dunlin 10
Bonaparte's Gull 700
Ring-billed Gull 27
Herring Gull 194
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Razorbill 1
Rock Pigeon 20
Mourning Dove 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 50
Dark-eyed Junco 3
Boat-tailed Grackle 1
blackbird sp. 20
House Finch 1
House Sparrow 10
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