Avalon Seawatch - November 7, 2011

Highlights from the Seawatch today included the season's first appreciable flight of Northern Gannets and a Red-necked Grebe. Most of the flight passed by during the AM hours; the afternoon was particularly slow.

American Black Duck - 16
Mallard - 3
Green-winged Teal - 12
Lesser Scaup - 9
Surf Scoter - 1,291
White-winged Scoter - 7
Black Scoter - 2,409
dark-winged scoter - 44
Long-tailed Duck - 4
Bufflehead - 2
Red-breasted Merganser - 2
Red-throated Loon - 360
Common Loon - 29
Horned Grebe - 7
Red-necked Grebe - 1
Northern Gannet - 6,177
Double-crested Cormorant - 199
Laughing Gull - 117
Bonaparte's Gull - 8
Ring-billed Gull - 39
Herring Gull - 22
Great Black-backed Gull - 10
Forster's Tern - 50
Royal Tern - 23
Parasitic Jaeger - 2

(Total = 10,843)

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