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)