The return of blue skies and west winds coincided with a very nice flight past Avalon today. Quality and quantity were both enjoyed, with scarcities like Razorbill, King Eider (two) and Red-necked Grebe combining with four-digit tallies for six species.
Brant - 219
Canada Goose - 19
Wood Duck - 63
Gadwall - 12
American Wigeon - 12
American Black Duck - 92
Mallard - 13
Green-winged Teal - 61
Ring-necked Duck - 23
Greater Scaup - 16
Lesser Scaup - 6
scaup, sp. - 21
King Eider - 2 (both females)
Common Eider - 1
Surf Scoter - 1,064
Black Scoter - 1,745
dark-winged scoter - 587
scoter, sp. - 1,227
Long-tailed Duck - 32
Bufflehead - 175
Common Goldeneye - 14
Hooded Merganser - 7
Red-breasted Merganser - 37
Red-throated Loon - 2,791
Common Loon - 17
Horned Grebe - 7
Red-necked Grebe - 1
Northern Gannet - 2,583
Double-crested Cormorant - 2,426
Great Cormorant - 6
Great Blue Heron - 1
Great Egret - 15
Laughing Gull - 13
Bonaparte's Gull - 5
Ring-billed Gull - 1,399
Herring Gull - 31
Great Black-backed Gull - 2
Forster's Tern - 43
Royal Tern - 2
Parasitic Jaeger - 1
Razorbill - 1
(Total = 14,854)
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