Avalon Seawatch - 1 December 2011

The day was very similar to yesterday. Mostly, Red-throated Loons and Northern Gannets. However, Ring-billed Gulls were moving in decent numbers and late in the day there was a push Bonaparte's Gulls. Three Great Egrets in the last hours were also a treat.

Canada Goose - 1

Brant - 130

American Black Duck - 3

Lesser Scaup - 1

Common Eider - 3

Surf Scoter - 121

Black Scoter - 262

dark-winged scoter - 40

Long-tailed Duck - 7

Bufflehead - 2

Hooded Merganser - 4

Red-breasted Merganser - 30

Red-throated Loon - 2401

Common Loon - 2

Horned Grebe - 1

Northern Gannet - 1047

Double-crested Cormorant - 431

Great Blue Heron - 1

Great Egret - 3

Laughing Gull - 3

Bonaparte's Gull - 64

Ring-billed Gull - 356

Herring Gull - 27

Great Black-backed Gull - 5

Forster's Tern - 12

Total - 4957