Seawatch, 8 November 2015

Sunday was a fabulous day to spend up in Avalon, with a very strong flight of Northern Gannets (this season's single-day record) and both Humpback and Finback Whales off-shore. We saw the first big movement of Red-throated Loons and duck diversity certainly picked up.
Counter: Skye Haas
Total for the day: 33,439
Total birds for the season: 443,053

One of a couple Humpback Whales seen from the Avalon Seawatch. [Photo by Jesse Amesbury.]

	11/08	Season Totals
ABDU - American Black Duck	34	571
AMGO - American Goldfinch	4	27
AMOY - American Oystercatcher	18	441
AMWI - American Wigeon	4	174
BARS - Barn Swallow	3	9
BBPL - Black-bellied Plover	38	1,474
BLSC - Black Scoter	877	29,132
BOGU - Bonaparte's Gull	23	129
BRAN - Brant	214	2,981
BUFF - Bufflehead	179	264
COEI - Common Eider	4	12
COLO - Common Loon	26	914
DCCO - Double-crested Cormorant	8,119	168,104
DUNL - Dunlin	635	1,600
DWSC-SP - Surf/Black (Dark-winged) Scoter Species	3,211	26,004
FOTE - Forster's Tern	463	15,539
GBBG - Great Black-backed Gull	14	831
GBHE - Great Blue Heron	3	165
GLSC - Greater/Lesser Scaup	115	804
GRCO - Great Cormorant	2	70
GREG - Great Egret	67	540
GRSC - Greater Scaup	10	169
GWTE - Green-winged Teal	177	3,884
HERG - Herring Gull	383	3,478
KILL - Killdeer	1	8
LAGU - Laughing Gull	1,116	27,693
LESC - Lesser Scaup	153	532
LTDU - Long-tailed Duck	10	94
MALL - Mallard	9	41
NOFL - Northern Flicker	1	26
NOGA - Northern Gannet	13,707	56,664
NOPI - Northern Pintail	4	1,009
PAJA - Parasitic Jaeger	13	556
RBGU - Ring-billed Gull	29	693
RBME - Red-breasted Merganser	26	107
REKN - Red Knot	3	198
ROYT - Royal Tern	31	2,262
RTLO - Red-throated Loon	643	2,099
RUTU - Ruddy Turnstone	5	92
RWBL - Red-winged Blackbird	4	15
SAND - Sanderling	15	2,347
SBDO - Short-billed Dowitcher	2	12
SCOTER-SP - Scoter Species	143	17,960
SUSC - Surf Scoter	2,545	58,741
UDEJ - Dark-eyed Junco	3	8
UNDU - Duck Species	147	1,382
UNSB - Shorebird Species	30	528
UNSO - Unidentified Songbird	1	135
WESA - Western Sandpiper	9	34
WODU - Wood Duck	140	649
WTSP - White-throated Sparrow	1	2
WWSC - White-winged Scoter	25	97