07/09/12 - 710am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD
WEATHER: Rain/MC, 71-82 degrees, calm- NNE 3K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler
Canada Goose - 127
Wood Duck - 1 (hen)
Gadwall - 2 (pair)
American Black Duck - 5
Mallard - 28
Lesser Scaup - 2 (drakes)
Bufflehead - 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck - 1 (drake)
PIed-billed Grebe - 10
Double-crested Cormorant - 61
Great Blue Heron - 22
Snowy Egret - 2 (adult & juvenile)
Osprey - 11
Bald Eagle - 1 (immature)
American Kestrel - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 2
Black-bellied Plover - 1
Killdeer - 7
Lesser Yellowlegs - 4
Spotted Sandpiper - 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1
Least Sandpiper - 11
Short-billed Dowitcher - 1 (atlantic)
Laughing Gull - 4
Ring-billed Gull - 190
Herring Gull - 20
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 10 (1 adult, 6 1st summer, 1 2nd summer, 2
3rd molting to 4th winter)
Great Black-backed Gull - 19
Caspian Tern - 283
Common Tern - 2
Forster's Tern - 4
Mourning Dove - 4
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 9
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 2
Tree Swallow - 13
Barn Swallow - 60
Carolina Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 6
Gray Catbird - 4
European Starling - 31
Yellow Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 32
Song Sparrow - 3
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 5
Blue Grosbeak - 4
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 86
Common Grackle - 9
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
Orchard Oriole - 6
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 14
SPECIES: 56
INDIVIDUALS:
MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
Muskrat - 1
REPTILES
N. Water Snake - 1
AMPHIBIANS
Wood Frog - 1 (little one)
BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 3
Orange Sulphur - 3
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Pearl Crescent - 1
Common Buckeye - 6
Monarch - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 1
DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 45
Needham's Skimmer - 250
Eastern Pondhawk - 3
Slaty Skimmer - 2
Black Saddlebags - 1
Calico Pennent - 6
DAMSELFLIES
1000+ (lack of time to check on ids, saw some were Ramburs)
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
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