07/30/12 � 715am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD
WEATHER: MC, 75-83 degrees, ESE 5K - ENE 6K (rain around noon)
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler
Canada Goose � 65
American Black Duck � 4 (2 pairs)
Mallard � 70
Green-winged Teal � 11
Lesser Scaup � 1 (drake)
Bufflehead � 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck � 1 (drake)
Pied-billed Grebe � 15 (5 nests occupied, 6th under construction)
Double-crested Cormorant � 66
Great Blue Heron � 14
Great Egret � 6
Snowy Egret � 8
Little Blue Heron � 5
Cattle Egret � 2 (adult & juvenile)
Osprey � 11
Bald Eagle � 1 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon � 1
Semipalmated Plover � 4
Killdeer � 9
Spotted Sandpiper � 2
Greater Yellowlegs � 1
Lesser Yellowlegs � 14
*SANDERLING � 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper � 4
*WESTERN SANDPIPER � 1
Least Sandpiper � 18
Peep sp � 71
*STILT SANDPIPER � 2
Short-billed Dowitcher � 5 (4 atlantic, 1 prairie)
Laughing Gull � 32
Ring-billed Gull � 64
Herring Gull � 4
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL � 4 (various ages)
Great Black-backed Gull � 39
Caspian Tern � 125
Common Tern � 1
Forster�s Tern � 3
*ROYAL TERN � 2
Mourning Dove � 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo � 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird � 3
Downy Woodpecker � 3
Northern Flicker � 1
Willow Flycatcher � 1
Eastern Kingbird � 13
Purple Martin � 215
Tree Swallow � 5
Bank Swallow � 105
Barn Swallow � 26
Carolina Wren � 4
Marsh Wren � 5
Gray Catbird � 12
European Starling � 27
Cedar Waxwing � 1
Yellow Warbler � 4
Common Yellowthroat � 19
*LARK SPARROW - 1 (immature, 4th county record, 2nd island record)
Song Sparrow � 7
Swamp Sparrow � 3
Northern Cardinal � 3
Blue Grosbeak � 3
Indigo Bunting � 2
Bobolink � 8
Red-winged Blackbird � 90
Common Grackle � 1
Brown-headed Cowbird � 4
Orchard Oriole � 6
House Finch � 15
American Goldfinch � 16
SPECIES: 68
INDIVIDUAS: 1299
MAMMALS
Red Fox � 2
AMPHIBIANS
Fowler�s Toad � 1
BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail � 2
Orange Sulphur � 5
Cloudless Sulphur � 2
Little Yellow � 1
Red-spotted Purple � 2
Monarch � 5
Painted Lady � 1
Common Buckeye � 4
Question Mark � 2
Pearl Crescent � 2
Gray Hairstreak � 1
Eastern Tailed Blue � 1
Zabulon Skipper � 3
DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner � 6
Four-spotted Pennant � 9
Spangled Skimmer � 1
Slaty Skimmer � 2
Eastern Pondhawk � 6
Needham�s Skimmer � 35
Carolina Saddlebags � 1
Black Saddlebags � 10
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
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