Date: 6/11/12 4:38 pm
From: Kevin Graff <keyweststyle2001...>
Subject: [mdbirding] Hart-Miller Island, 06/11/12


06/11/12 � 710am-105pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair/PC, 73-85 degrees, calm- ESE 3K
OBSERVERS: Diane Ford, Kevin Graff, Kye Jenkins, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose � 48
Wood Duck � 2
American Black Duck � 2
Mallard � 28
Bufflehead � 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck � 1
Pied-billed Grebe � 2
Double-crested Cormorant � 31
*LEAST BITTERN � 2
Great Blue Heron � 17
Great Egret � 2
Snowy Egret � 2
Osprey � 12 (one nest with two young)
Peregrine Falcon � 3 (one adult, two young)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER � 2
Killdeer � 5
Spotted Sandpiper � 1
Laughing Gull � 1 (1st summer)
Ring-billed Gull � 328
Herring Gull � 62
Great Black-backed Gull � 7
Least Tern � 1
Caspian Tern � 66
*ROYAL TERN � 1 (breeding plumage adult)
Mourning Dove � 3
*BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO � 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo � 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird � 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker � 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee � 1
Willow Flycatcher � 1
Great Crested Flycatcher � 2
Eastern Kingbird � 5
Purple Martin � 1
Tree Swallow � 16
Barn Swallow � 21
Carolina Chickadee- 2
Carolina Wren � 2
Marsh Wren � 4
Gray Catbird � 3
European Starling � 6
Cedar Waxwing � 3
Yellow Warbler � 4
Common Yellowthroat � 27
Song Sparrow � 4
Swamp Sparrow � 2
Northern Cardinal � 4
Blue Grosbeak � 5
Indigo Bunting � 2
Red-winged Blackbird � 71
Common Grackle � 15
Brown-headed Cowbird � 9
Orchard Oriole � 9
American Goldfinch � 12
SPECIES: 54
INDIVIDUALS: 866

MAMMALS
Muskrat � 1

BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail � 1
Black Swallowtail � 1
Cabbage White � 20
Clouded/Orange Sulphur � 1 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur � 30
Summer Azure � 1
Pearl Crescent � 1
Monarch � 4
Horace�s Duskywing � 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner � 50+
Needham�s Skimmer � 100+
Eastern Pondhawk � 15
Slaty Skimmer � 1
Common Whitetail � 1
Halloween Pennant � 1
Four-spotted Pennant � 4
Black Saddlebags � 6

DAMSELFLIES
Damselflies sp � 100+ (lack of time, saw a few rambur�s forktail)

MOTHS
White Slant-line- 1 (nature trail)
Black-and-yellow Lichen Moth � 1 (nature trail)
Virginian Tiger Moth � 2 (Yellow Bear: one each dark brown and tan)

BEETLES
Large Milkweed Moth � 1



Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
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