Date: 8/27/12 3:12 pm
From: Kevin Graff <keyweststyle2001...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Hart-Miller Island, 08/27/12


08/27/12 � 715am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/Fair, 71-84 degrees, SW 3K- SE 7K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Kye Jenkins, Bob Ringler, Warren Strobel

Canada Goose � 48
Wood Duck � 4
Gadwall � 1
American Black Duck � 18
Mallard � 269
Blue-winged Teal � 30
Northern Shoveler � 6
Green-winged Teal � 77
Lesser Scaup � 1 (drake)
Bufflehead � 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck � 2 (pair)
Pied-billed Grebe � 20 (two full grown young)
Double-crested Cormorant � 139
Great Blue Heron � 9
Great Egret � 1
Snowy Egret � 4
Cattle Egret � 1
Osprey � 10
Bald Eagle � 2 (adults)
Northern Harrier � 1
Peregrine Falcon � 1
American Coot � 1
Black-bellied Plover � 1
Semipalmated Plover � 5
Killdeer � 4
*AMERICAN AVOCET � 6
Spotted Sandpiper � 2
Greater Yellowlegs � 4
Lesser Yellowlegs � 13
Semipalmated Sandpiper � 19
Least Sandpiper � 11
Peep sp � 129
Pectoral Sandpiper � 1
Stilt Sandpiper � 2
Short-billed Dowitcher � 1 (prairie)
Laughing Gull � 2
Ring-billed Gull � 46
Herring Gull � 5
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL � 2 (1st winter, 4th winter)
Great Black-backed Gull � 41
Caspian Tern � 194
Common Tern � 1
Forster�s Tern � 6
*ROYAL TERN � 2 (adult, juvenile)
Mourning Dove � 11
Yellow-billed Cuckoo � 1
Cuckoo sp � 1
Chimney Swift � 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird � 1
Belted Kingfisher � 1
Downy Woodpecker � 1
Eastern Phoebe � 2
Eastern Kingbird � 5
N. Rough-winged Swallow � 1
Purple Martin � 57
Tree Swallow � 27
Barn Swallow � 44
Carolina Chickadee � 2
Carolina Wren � 6
Gray Catbird � 6
Northern Mockingbird � 1
European Starling � 44
Common Yellowthroat � 8
Yellow Warbler � 4
*CAPE MAY WARBLER � 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler � 1
Black-and-white Warbler � 1
American Redstart � 1
Song Sparrow � 1
Northern Cardinal � 5
Blue Grosbeak � 2
Bobolink � 29
Red-winged Blackbird � 26
Orchard Oriole � 1
House Finch � 2
American Goldfinch � 11
SPECIES: 74
INDIVIDUALS: 1448

MAMMALS
Red Fox � 1

REPTILES
Snapping Turtle � 1
Northern Water Snake � 1

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler�s Toad � 1

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail � 1
Black Swallowtail � 3
Spicebush Swallowtail � 1
Cabbage White � 2
Orange Sulphur � 19
Little Yellow � 3
Cloudless Sulphur � 8
Red-spotted Purple � 1 (
Eastern Tailed Blue � 5
Pearl Crescent � 17
Painted Lady � 8
Red Admiral � 2
Common Buckeye � 7
Monarch � 42
Wild Indigo Duskywing � 1
Least Skipper � 1
Sachem � 3
Zabulon Skipper � 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner � 20
Swamp Darner � 1
Needham;s Skimmer � 25
Four-spotted Pennant � 16
Eastern Pondhawk � 5
Twelve-spotted Skimmer � 4
Carolina Saddlebags � 3
Black Saddlebags � 20


**NOTE** Anyone like to come to HMI on Wed Sep 5th and Mon Sep 10th,
contact me by Thurs evening since Bob Ringler's computer is down and
he'll be away for the next two Mondays.


Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
<KeyWeststyle2001...>

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