09/04/12 � 710am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD
WEATHER: MC/PC, 78-85 degrees, SSW 7K- WSW 6K
OBSERVERS: Diane Ford, Kevin Graff
Canada Goose � 4
Wood Duck � 4
Gadwall � 1 (drake)
American Black Duck � 16
Mallard � 207
Blue-winged Teal � 28
Northern Shoveler � 21
Northern Pintail � 1 (hen)
Green-winged Teal � 114
Lesser Scaup � 1 (hen)
Bufflehead � 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck � 2 (pair)
Pied-billed Grebe � 21 (three full grown young)
Double-crested Cormorant � 97
Great Blue Heron � 7
Snowy Egret � 3
Osprey � 6
Bald Eagle � 1 (immature)
Cooper�s Hawk � 1
Peregrine Falcon � 1
American Coot � 1
Black-bellied Plover � 2
Semipalmated Plover � 6
Killdeer � 1
Spotted Sandpiper � 1
Greater Yellowlegs � 5
Lesser Yellowlegs � 30
Semipalmated Sandpiper � 16
Least Sandpiper � 20
Peep sp � 78
Pectoral Sandpiper � 1
Stilt Sandpiper � 3
Short-billed Dowitcher � 2 (prairie)
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE � 1 (non-breeding plumage, very pale, white face,
very long thin needle-like bill, grayish brown back, white rump
visible when flushed by a low-flying
Peregrine Falcon. It
flew out with flock of lesser yellowlegs, stilt sandpipers and
dowitchers, not seen again rest of the day)
Laughing Gull � 9
Ring-billed Gull � 30
Herring Gull � 6
Lesser Black-backed Gull � 2 (both 4th winter)
Great Black-backed Gull � 128
Caspian Tern � 191
Common Tern � 1
Forster�s Tern � 6
Mourning Dove � 11
Chimney Swift � 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird � 4
Downy Woodpecker � 1
Eastern Phoebe � 1
Eastern Kingbird � 2
Purple Martin � 38
Tree Swallow � 77
Barn Swallow � 52
Carolina Chickadee � 1
Carolina Wren � 3
Gray Catbird � 4
European Starling � 37
Common Yellowthroat � 8
Tennessee Warbler � 1
Northern Parula � 1
Yellow Warbler � 2
Magnolia Warbler � 2
American Redstart � 1
Eastern Towhee � 1
Song Sparrow � 2
Northern Cardinal � 4
Blue Grosbeak � 1
Bobolink � 13
Red-winged Blackbird � 57
Brown-headed Cowbird � 2
Orchard Oriole � 2
House Finch � 1
American Goldfinch � 14
SPECIES: 70
INDIVIDUALS: 1424
REPTILES
N. Water Snake � 1
BUTTERFLIES
E Tiger Swallowtail � 1
Black Swallowtail � 4
Cabbage White � 2
Orange Sulphur � 9
Cloudless Sulphur � 5
Red-spotted Purple � 10
Eastern Tailed Blue � 18
Pearl Crescent � 19
Painted Lady � 6
Common Buckeye � 11
Monarch � 13
Least Skipper � 1
Sachem � 10
DRAGONFLIES
Common Green darner � 10
Needham�s Skimmer � 15
Four-spotted Pennant � 8
Eastern Pondhawk � 4
Twelve-spotted Skimmer � 5
Wandering Glider � 2
Carolina Saddlebags � 1
Black Saddlebags - 15
MOTHS
Virginian Tiger Moth � 7 (Yellow Bear)
Smeared Dagger Moth � 6 (smartweed caterpillar)
**NOTE: I won't be around next week while i'm vacationing in Wildwood
for a week for a little birding and attending NJ firemen convention
and Bob Ringler still in Arizona. We'll be back for next one on
Monday September 17th. Let Bob or me know by Thurs evening on the
13th**
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
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