Seawatch, 11 November 2015

The female King Eider continued to hang out at the Avalon Seawatch today, along with a smattering of other seabirds, despite the less-than-favorable weather conditions. There was also the season's first Common Goldeneye spotted.
Counter: Skye Haas
Total for the day: 10,617
Total birds for the season: 481,492

	11/11	Season Totals
ABDU - American Black Duck	35	692
AMOY - American Oystercatcher	2	443
BBPL - Black-bellied Plover	4	1,479
BLSC - Black Scoter	380	32,831
BRAN - Brant	81	3,107
BUFF - Bufflehead	25	378
COEI - Common Eider	2	15
COGO - Common Goldeneye	1	1
COLO - Common Loon	118	1,116
DCCO - Double-crested Cormorant	2,101	171,772
DUNL - Dunlin	1	1,766
DWSC-SP - Surf/Black (Dark-winged) Scoter Species	693	32,463
FOTE - Forster's Tern	22	15,698
GBBG - Great Black-backed Gull	51	908
GBHE - Great Blue Heron	9	234
GREG - Great Egret	15	557
GRYE - Greater Yellowlegs	1	3
GWTE - Green-winged Teal	4	6,801
HERG - Herring Gull	478	4,196
KIEI - King Eider	1	2
LAGU - Laughing Gull	3,724	32,135
LBBG - Lesser Black-backed Gull	3	39
LTDU - Long-tailed Duck	5	113
NOGA - Northern Gannet	1,172	59,566
NOPI - Northern Pintail	26	1,073
PAJA - Parasitic Jaeger	5	588
PUSA - Purple Sandpiper	14	31
RBGU - Ring-billed Gull	474	1,685
RBME - Red-breasted Merganser	34	208
REDH - Redhead	9	85
ROYT - Royal Tern	9	2,284
RTLO - Red-throated Loon	648	3,825
RUTU - Ruddy Turnstone	7	99
SAND - Sanderling	91	2,438
SCOTER-SP - Scoter Species	193	18,451
SUSC - Surf Scoter	142	66,454
UNDU - Duck Species	28	1,571
WODU - Wood Duck	8	815
WWSC - White-winged Scoter	1	134