It was another big scoter day at Avalon, though many were quite distant at times. Of the 45,000 birds tallied, nearly 40,000 were scoter. Otherwise there actually wasn't much else of note, but there were plenty of scaup and Green-winged Teal mixed in with the continuous scoter flocks.
Brant - 325
Wood Duck - 9
American Wigeon - 3
American Black Duck - 221
Northern Pintail - 32
Green-winged Teal - 536
Greater Scaup - 99
Lesser Scaup - 26
scaup, sp. - 17
Surf Scoter - 15,406
White-winged Scoter - 117
Black Scoter - 15,585
dark-winged scoter - 7,178
scoter, sp. - 1,756
Long-tailed Duck - 11
Bufflehead - 2
Hooded Merganser - 2
Red-breasted Merganser - 40
Red-throated Loon - 246
Common Loon - 10
Horned Grebe - 1
Northern Gannet - 99
Double-crested Cormorant - 3,644
Laughing Gull - 4
Bonaparte's Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 63
Herring Gull - 18
Forster's Tern - 30
Royal Tern - 1
(Total = 45,482)
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