Today was another fun day at the seawatch! My last day of counting went by with a couple of highlights, but rather slow migration otherwise. Remember to visit Doug Gochfeld tomorrow at the seawatch, as it is the final day of the 2010 count.
Today's highlights were 2 Razorbills and 2 Glaucous Gulls. The Razorbills went by in the afternoon, and one of them (spotted by Doug) passed by rather close. The Glaucous Gulls both were spotted over the city. One was a very pale white color, and the other was darker.
An eBird list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
917 migrants today
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 12/21/10
Number of species: 46
Brant 7
Canada Goose 197
American Black Duck 4
Mallard 3
Green-winged Teal 4
Greater Scaup 1
Lesser Scaup 1
Common Eider 11
Harlequin Duck 1
Surf Scoter 82
White-winged Scoter 7
Black Scoter 95
Surf/Black Scoter 55
Long-tailed Duck 80
Bufflehead 2
Red-breasted Merganser 29
Red-throated Loon 96
Common Loon 5
Horned Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 20
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Cormorant 2
Turkey Vulture 8
Bald Eagle 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Killdeer 1
American Oystercatcher 3
Ruddy Turnstone 6
Sanderling 4
Purple Sandpiper 30
Dunlin 10
Bonaparte's Gull 75
Ring-billed Gull 28
Herring Gull 81
Glaucous Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Razorbill 2
Rock Pigeon 15
Mourning Dove 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 50
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Dark-eyed Junco 6
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Boat-tailed Grackle 1
House Sparrow 10
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