Slow and somewhat steady was the best way to describe today's count at Avalon. It was a fairly diverse flight, with 22 species logged for the day, but numbers were generally quite low. We enjoyed a brief but heavy burst of Double-crested Cormorants mid-morning, and the season's first flocks of Brant also rolled through today. But perhaps the highlight of the day was a passerine, in the form of a nearly-exhausted Yellow-breasted Chat that apparently flew in from the ocean shortly after 6pm and landed under my tripod! After a collision with the nearby wall, it flopped into the nearest pine.
The day's tally follows:
Canada Goose - 15
Brant - 42 (first of season)
Northern Pintail - 47
Green-winged Teal - 2
Surf Scoter - 5
Black Scoter - 2
Red-throated Loon - 1
Common Loon - 5
Northern Gannet - 6
Brown Pelican - 2
Double-crested Cormorant - 1,139
Great Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron - 24
Great Egret - 2
Laughing Gull - 132
Herring Gull - 16
Great Black-backed Gull - 190
Caspian Tern - 5
Common Tern - 6
Forster's Tern - 59
Royal Tern - 68
(Total = 1,771)
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