Avalon Seawatch - 23 November 2011

Not a bad day overall. Nothing like the prior two days. Rain in the morning with ESE winds shifting to NW by mid day. There have up to four Common Eiders hanging out by the jetties, including on adult male. Also, all three scoters and one Great Cormorant have been hanging out as well.

Snow Goose - 20

Brant - 20

Wood Duck - 1

Gadwall - 1

American Wigeon - 1

American Black Duck - 75

Mallard - 33

Northern Pintail - 6

Greater Scaup - 1

Lesser Scaup - 4

Common Eider - 32

Surf Scoter - 906

White-winged Scoter - 24

Black Scoter - 1866

dark-winged scoter - 151

Long-tailed Duck - 24

Bufflehead - 7

Red-breasted Merganser - 118

Red-throated Loon - 2645

Common Loon - 4

Horned Grebe - 1

Northern Gannet - 1482

Double-crested Cormorant - 321

Great Cormorant - 3

Great Blue Heron - 2

Laughing Gull - 369

Bonaparte's Gull - 12

Ring-billed Gull - 56

Herring Gull - 130

Great black-backed Gull - 21

Forster's Tern - 12

Total - 8348