Avalon Seawatch - October 7, 2011

It was a great day at the Seawatch, with clear skies and mild temperatures teaming up with a strong and diverse flight for early October. Highlights among 11,288 counted birds included the season's first Northern Shoveler, Common Eider, Red-breasted Merganser and Redhead, the last of which a lovely (and quite early) adult male that was picked out by Matt Jewell. Other notables included another strong movement of Double-crested Cormorant (8,357), an alternate-plumage Red-throated Loon, a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron flying south with two Great Blue Herons, and our first real scoter flight, with about 1,500 individuals counted.

The day's tally follows-

Snow Goose - 9
Canada Goose - 10
Brant - 25
American Wigeon - 3
American Black Duck - 44
Blue-winged Teal - 3
Northern Shoveler - 5
Northern Pintail - 59
Green-winged Teal - 79
Redhead - 1
Common Eider - 1
Surf Scoter - 829
Black Scoter - 425
dark-winged scoter - 238
Red-breasted Merganser - 1
Red-throated Loon - 1
Common Loon - 76
Northern Gannet - 27
Brown Pelican - 28
Double-crested Cormorant - 8,357
Great Blue Heron - 72
Great Egret - 1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 1
Laughing Gull - 770
Ring-billed Gull - 14
Herring Gull - 61
Great Black-backed Gull - 73
Common Tern - 3
Forster's Tern - 44
Royal Tern - 27

(Total = 11,288)

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