Date: 7/23/12 2:33 pm
From: Kevin Graff <keyweststyle2001...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Hart-Miller Island, 07/23/12


07/23/12 � 715am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 75-85 degrees, calm- SE 4K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Joe Hanfman

Canada Goose � 43
Wood Duck � 1 (hen)
American Black Duck � 1 (drake)
Mallard � 30
Blue-winged Teal- 1 (drake)
Lesser Scaup � 1
Bufflehead � 1
Pied-billed Grebe � 17 (5 nests occupied)
Double-crested Cormorant � 72
Great Blue Heron � 10
Great Egret � 7
Snowy Egret � 4
Osprey � 11
Bald Eagle � 1 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon � 1
Semipalmated Plover � 2
Killdeer � 9
Spotted Sandpiper � 4
Greater Yellowlegs � 2
Lesser Yellowlegs � 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper � 2
*WESTERN SANDPIPER � 1
Least Sandpiper � 26
Peep sp � 11
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER � 3
*STILT SANDPIPER � 1
Short-billed Dowitcher � 1 (atlantic)
Laughing Gull � 30
Ring-billed Gull � 96
Herring Gull � 3
Lesser Black-backed Gull � 6 (1 adult, 2 1st summer going to 2nd
winter, 1 2nd summer going to 3rd winter, 2 3rd summer to 4th winter
Great Black-backed Gull � 61
Caspian Tern � 132
Common Tern � 2
Forster�s Tern � 3
*ROYAL TERN � 1
Mourning Dove � 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo � 1
Chimney Swift � 1
Eastern Kingbird � 8
Purple Martin � 48
Tree Swallow � 9
Bank Swallow � 4
Barn Swallow � 20
Carolina Wren � 2
Marsh Wren � 5
Gray Catbird � 4
Brown Thrasher � 1
European Staring � 78
Common Yellowthroat � 21
Northern Parula � 1 (immature)
Yellow Warbler � 4
Eastern Towhee � 1
Song Sparrow � 1
Northern Cardinal � 2
Blue Grosbeak � 1
Indigo Bunting � 1
Red-winged Blackbird � 82
Common Grackle � 4
Brown-headed Cowbird � 3
Orchard Oriole � 7
House Finch � 8
American Goldfinch � 14
SPECIES: 62
INDIVIDUALS: 927

MAMMALS
Red Fox � 1
White-tailed Deer � 1 (doe)

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail � 1
Pipevine Swallowtail � 1
Cabbage White - 1
Orange Sulphur - 1
Common Buckeye - 8
Monarch - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 20
Needham's Skimmer � 85
*PAINTED SKIMMER � 1 (female)
Slaty Skimmer - 1
Black Saddlebags - 4
Eastern Pondhawk - 2
Four-spotted Pennant - 2

DAMSELFLIES
200+ (lack of time to check on ids, saw some were Ramburs)


Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
<KeyWeststyle2001...>

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