Observer: Skye Haas
Species counted:
Brant - 490
Wood Duck - 1
American Black Duck - 115
Mallard - 3
Northern Pintail - 7
Green-winged Teal - 870
Ring-necked Duck - 21
Greater Scaup - 54
Lesser Scaup - 56
Scaup sp. - 27
Duck sp. - 80
Surf Scoter - 6,310
White-winged Scoter - 17
Black Scoter - 14,833
Dark-winged Scoter - 1,328
Long-tailed Duck - 3
Bufflehead - 15
Redhead - 2
Hooded Merganser - 1
Red-breasted Merganser - 32
Red-throated Loon - 145
Common Loon - 124
Horned Grebe - 12
Northern Gannet - 6,573
Brown Pelican - 11
Double-crested Cormorant - 1,698
Great Cormorant - 1
Laughing Gull - 118
Bonaparte's Gull - 1,081
Ring-billed Gull - 242
Great Black-backed Gull - 12
Common Tern - 11
Forster's Tern - 3,788
Royal Tern - 8
Tern sp. - 132
Gull/Tern - 162
Parasitic Jaeger - 15
American Oystercatcher - 30
Sanderling - 30
Dunlin - 42
Seipalmated Plover - 3
Ruddy Turnstone -2
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1
Purple Sandpiper - 1
Total: 38,814
A note from Skye:
Sorry to be away for so long again, its been busy days here at Avalon. Great flight today with over 38,000 birds recorded. Biggest day yet for Black Scoter, Bonaparte's Gull and Forster's Tern. The Forster's Tern total is actually the new single-day high count for the Seawatch by several hundred birds. Another 400+ terns were seen early in the day in poor light and were likely more Forster's. It was good to see a return of a decent Jaeger day, their totals had noticeably dropped the last couple of weeks, but with so many small terns and gulls moving, the jaegers were certainly on the prowl today! Other notables today included the first for the season of both Pectoral Sandpiper and Snow Bunting.
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| Forster's Tern. [Photo by Mike Kilpatrick.] |
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| Parasitic Jaeger. [Photo by Mike Kilpatrick.] |
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