07/16/12 - 715am-1115am
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD
WEATHER: PC/Fair, 77-86 degrees, W 4K- WSW 3K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler
Canada Goose - 187
American Black Duck - 2 (pair)
Mallard - 18
Lesser Scaup - 2 (drakes)
Bufflehead - 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck - 1 (drake)
Pied-billed Grebe - 12 (5 out of 6 nests occupied, one full grown juvenile)
Double-crested Cormorant - 39
Great Blue Heron - 8
Snowy Egret - 1
Osprey - 12 (one nest w/ two young)
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Killdeer - 6
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 5
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 3
Spotted Sandpiper - 2
Least Sandpiper - 5
peep sp - 8
Laughing Gull - 35
Ring-billed Gull - 159
Herring Gull - 7
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 5 (1 ad, 2 1st summer, 2 3rd summer going to 4th W)
Great Black-backed Gull - 17
Caspian Tern - 95
Forster's Tern - 3
Mourning Dove - 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 8
Tree Swallow - 9
Barn Swallow - 16
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 3
Marsh Wren - 6
Gray catbird - 7
European Starling - 26
Yellow Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 29
Song Sparrow - 2
Swamp Sparrow - 2
Northern Cardinal - 5
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Indigo Bunting - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 98
Common Grackle - 5
Brown-headed Cowbird - 3
Orchard Oriole - 8
House Finch - 9
American Goldfinch - 9
SPECIES: 50
INDIVIDUALS:
BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 1
Orange Sulphur - 2
Clouded Sulphur- 1
Common Buckeye - 1
Monarch - 1
DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 25
Needham's Skimmer - 350
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 1 (female)
Slaty Skimmer - 2
Calico Pennant - 1
Halloween Pennant - 1
Black Saddlebags - 2
Eastern Pondhawk - 3
Four-spotted Pennant - 4
DAMSELFLIES
500+ (lack of time to check on ids, saw some were Ramburs)
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
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