Avalon Seawatch - 17 November 2011

Even more rain and much colder weather made for a rather bitter day. However, the birds put on a halfway decent show. A distant Razorbill flew south early in the day, and there were good numbers of White-winged Scoters, and Parasitic Jaegers. A flock of 12 Tundra Swans was a nice treat. And again, nasty weather proves to be productive.

Brant - 94

Tundra Swan - 12

Wood Duck - 1

Gadwall - 1

American Black Duck - 8

Mallard - 1

Green-winged Teal - 2

Greater Scaup - 7

Lesser Scaup - 5

scaup sp - 9

Surf Scoter - 914

White-winged Scoter - 35

Black Scoter - 1875

dark-winged scoter - 488

Long-tailed Duck - 27

Bufflehead - 101

Red-breasted Merganser - 80

Red-throated Loon - 1043

Common Loon - 10

Northern Gannet - 1608

Double-crested Cormorant - 1462

Great Cormorant - 1

Great Blue Heron - 6

Laughing Gull - 223

Bonaparte's Gull - 22

Ring-billed Gull - 77

Herring Gull - 37

Great Black-backed Gull - 7

Forster's Tern - 160

Royal Tern - 17

Parasitic Jaeger - 9

Razorbill - 1

Total - 8343