Avalon Seawatch - November 1, 2011

The first day of November featured a fair morning flight that fizzled later in the day. Diversity paled in comparison to the Halloween flight, with scoters and cormorants making up a large portion of all birds counted.

Brant - 26
Wood Duck - 9
American Black Duck - 3
Northern Pintail - 1
Green-winged Teal - 128
scaup, sp. - 1
Surf Scoter - 2,085
White-winged Scoter - 9
Black Scoter - 3,717
dark-winged scoter - 1,290
Red-breasted Merganser - 11
Red-throated Loon - 174
Common Loon - 3
Northern Gannet - 200
Brown Pelican - 4
Double-crested Cormorant - 2,635
Great Cormorant - 2
Great Blue Heron - 2
Laughing Gull - 8
Ring-billed Gull - 32
Herring Gull - 4
Common Tern - 2
Royal Tern - 3
Parasitic Jaeger - 1

(Total = 10,350)

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