A pretty slow day again today at the seawatch. Red-throated Loons and Northern Gannets made up the majority of the flight again.
Today's highlights were 23 White-winged Scoters, 44 Snow Geese, 4 Bufflehead, 8 Long-tailed Ducks, 1 Horned Grebe, and 1 Great Cormorant. A single Black Skimmer going south is getting late.
An eBird list of species detected follows, with counted migrants in bold:
4,591 migrants today.
Location: Avalon Seawatch
Observation date: 12/4/10
Number of species: 39
Snow Goose 44
Brant 8
Canada Goose 131
American Black Duck 18
Mallard 6
Greater Scaup 4
Lesser Scaup 6
Common Eider 4
Surf Scoter 583
White-winged Scoter 23
Black Scoter 280
Surf/Black Scoter 175
Long-tailed Duck 8
Bufflehead 4
Red-breasted Merganser 21
Red-throated Loon 889
Common Loon 13
Horned Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 1352
Double-crested Cormorant 62
Great Cormorant 1
Turkey Vulture 4
Black-bellied Plover 17
Semipalmated Plover 1
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Sanderling 20
Purple Sandpiper 29
Dunlin 20
Bonaparte's Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 282
Herring Gull 173
Great Black-backed Gull X
Black Skimmer 1
Rock Pigeon 10
Mourning Dove 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 60
Dark-eyed Junco 1
House Sparrow 10
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