Sizable flocks of cormorants and scoters continued for a third day at Avalon, and were joined by a continuous trickle of Northern Gannets during the afternoon. The Gannets in particular were crowd-pleasers, as quite a few passed by at close range and in favorable late day light. Other highlights included a nice push of Wood Ducks, our 100th Parasitic Jaeger of the season, and a rather late Black Tern that passed by in the evening.
Totals:
Brant - 108
Wood Duck - 102
American Wigeon - 5
American Black Duck - 3
Northern Pintail - 4
Green-winged Teal - 175
Greater Scaup - 8
Lesser Scaup - 7
Surf Scoter - 3,426
White-winged Scoter - 11
Black Scoter - 1,661
dark-winged scoter - 96
Red-breasted Merganser - 1
Red-throated Loon - 48
Common Loon - 82
Horned Grebe - 5
Northern Gannet - 681
Brown Pelican - 17
Double-crested Cormorant - 8,677
Great Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron - 56
Laughing Gull - 269
Bonaparte's Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 10
Herring Gull - 2
Black Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 89
Royal Tern - 14
Parasitic Jaeger - 1
(Total = 15,561)
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