Avalon Seawatch, 8 December 2016

    West winds stayed calm throughout the day and the temperature rose to 40 degrees. Clouds covered the sky but visibility wasn't bad. Today's count totaled in at just over 1,600 birds with Double Crested Cormorants, Red Throated Loons, and Scoters making up the majority of the count.

Species	Count today	Season total	Season maximum
			Count	Date(s)
Black Duck	4	1451	246	10/24/2016
Black Scoter	131	175202	15583	11/24/2016
Common Loon	8	1437	376	10/24/2016
Double-crested Cormorant	307	147062	10151	10/11/2016
Great Black-backed Gull	2	813	48	10/21/2016
Greater / Lesser Scaup	7	477	58	11/12/2016
Horned Grebe	1	56	18	11/22/2016
Laughing Gull	3	19310	1592	11/1/2016
Long-tailed Duck	6	386	144	11/22/2016
Northern Gannet	35	57889	6143	11/24/2016
Red-breasted Merganser	11	651	122	12/5/2016
Red-throated Loon	259	66391	7293	11/24/2016
Ring-billed Gull	8	7140	1515	11/22/2016
scoter sp.	219	40215	6858	11/7/2016
Surf Scoter	267	90832	10310	11/1/2016
Surf/Black Scoter	358	33463	4115	11/1/2016
Tundra Swan	7	86	33	11/21/2016