Avalon Seawatch - 24 November 2011

The seawatch was very similar to the day before. A steady slow movement all day. The morning brought the season's first Black-legged Kittiwake. A nice adult at that! And, two American Woodcock came in off the water late in the day.

Snow Goose - 2

Canada Goose - 4

Brant - 14

Tundra Swan - 10

Gadwall - 13

American Wigeon - 1

American Black Duck - 111

Mallard - 2

Northern Pintail - 10

Green-winged Teal - 62

Common Eider - 13

Surf Scoter - 861

White-winged Scoter - 11

Black Scoter - 2176

dark-winged scoter - 440

unidentified scoter -40

Long-tailed Duck - 17

Bufflehead - 1

Hooded Merganser - 3

Red-breasted Merganser - 45

Red-throated Loon - 2419

Common Loon - 11

Horned Grebe - 1

Northern Gannet - 1049

Double-crested Cormorant - 1339

Great Cormorant - 1

Laughing Gull - 43

Bonaparte's Gull - 6

Ring-billed Gull - 136

Herring Gull - 52

Great Black-backed Gull - 5

Black-legged Kittiwake - 1

Forster's Tern - 2

Total - 8901