Avalon Seawatch - 29 September 2011

The seawatch started off really this morning with a good flight of Double-crested Cormorants, but it then petered out pretty quickly. The first Common Loons flew by today. Six Brown Pelicans were a highlight, and Laughing gulls and terns then trickled through all day. In the last hour there were two flocks of Great Blue Herons totaling 15 birds and a small flock of Northern Pintails.

Passerines of note, were one Blackpoll Warbelr and three Savannah Sparrows.

American Black - 1
Northern Pintail - 19
Surf Scoter - 16
Black Scoter - 3
Common Loon - 6
Northenr Gannet - 19
Brown Pelican - 6
Double-crested Cormorant - 1670
Great Blue Heron - 15
Laughing Gull - 87
Ring-billed Gull - 2
Herring Gull - 9
Great Black-backed Gull - 14
Caspian Tern - 3
Common Tern - 27
Forster's Tern - 34
Royal Tern - 35
Black Skimmer - 1

(Total - 1967)

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