"Well today was a nice day at Avalon. I was still a bit tired from the big flight the other day, and didn't mind the slow pace of the flight on this rainy and grey day. Sometimes it is about quality, not quantity. There may have not been a ton flying, but my goodness they were flying close to the seawall today! Scoters, gannets and Red-throated Loons all were coming right down the channel. Also nice was the lighting. Overcast, but not too dreary, birds like Bonaparte's Gulls, Greater Scaup, and Surf Scoters really popped in this light. And best of all, late in the day was our second Little Gull of the season. Framed against pink and grey clouds, this basic plumaged adult looked positively radiant as it drifted its way south in a mixed flock of Bonies and terns. So pretty!" – S.H.
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| [Bonaparte's Gulls migrating past the Seawatch, 5 Nov. Photo by Mike Kilpatrick.] |
Observation time: 0625 – 1704
Observer: Skye Haas
Species counted:
Brant - 9
Gadwall - 24
American Wigeon - 1
Green-winged Teal - 30
Lesser Scaup - 8
Greater Scaup - 42
Surf Scoter - 1,572
White-winged Scoter - 4
Black Scoter - 2,718
Dark-winged Scoter - 163
Long-tailed Duck - 10
Bufflehead - 3
Red-breasted Merganser - 11
Red-throated Loon - 53
Common Loon - 16
Northern Gannet - 889
Double-crested Cormorant - 4
Little Gull - 1
Laughing Gull - 96
Bonaparte's Gull - 226
Ring-billed Gull - 24
Great Black-backed Gull - 3
Caspian Tern - 3
Forster's Tern - 395
Royal Tern - 2
Parasitic Jaeger - 3
American Oystercatcher - 11
Black-bellied Plover - 7
Semipalmated Plover - 2
Dunlin - 26
Sanderling - 32
Purple Sandpiper - 24
peep, sp. - 9
Total: 6,421
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