Date: 9/25/12 7:36 pm
From: Kevin Graff <keyweststyle2001...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Hart-Miller Island, 09/24/12


09/24/12 � 710am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC/Fair, 53-68 degrees, WNW 3K- WNW 7K
OBSERVERS: Jeff Culler, Kevin Graff, Joe Hanfman, Bob Ringler

Gadwall � 14
American Wigeon � 2
American Black Duck � 3
Mallard � 73
Blue-winged Teal � 8
Northern Shoveler � 3
Northern Pintail � 3
Green-winged Teal � 176
Lesser Scaup � 3
Bufflehead � 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck � 14
Pied-billed Grebe � 22
Double-crested Cormorant � 78
Great Blue Heron � 6
Snowy Egret � 4
Northern Harrier � 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk � 2
Bald Eagle � 2 (adults)
Black-bellied Plover � 10
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER � 2
Semipalmated Plover � 1
Killdeer � 1
Spotted Sandpiper � 1
Greater Yellowlegs � 2
Lesser Yellowlegs � 11
*SANDERLING � 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper � 18
Least Sandpiper � 14
Peep sp � 10
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER � 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER � 1
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER � 1 (juvenile)
Laughing Gull � 15
Ring-billed Gull � 20
Herring Gull � 8
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL � 1 (3rd winter)
Great Black-backed Gull � 3
Caspian Tern � 302
Forster�s Tern � 2
Mourning Dove � 7
Yellow-billed Cuckoo � 1
Chimney Swift � 8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird � 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker � 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker � 1
Downy Woodpecker � 3
Northern Flicker � 16
American Kestrel � 4
Peregrine Falcon � 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee � 3
Empidonax sp � 1
Eastern Phoebe � 6
White-eyed Vireo � 1
Red-eyed Vireo � 2
Blue Jay � 10
Tree Swallow � 120
Carolina Chickadee � 2
Tufted Titmouse � 1
House Wren � 2
Carolina Wren � 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet � 2
Swainson�s Thrush � 1
Wood Thrush � 1
Gray Catbird � 16
European Starling � 128
*AMERICAN PIPIT � 1
Black-and-white Warbler � 1
Common Yellowthroat � 23
Northern Parula � 2
Magnolia Warbler � 5
Bay-breasted Warbler � 2
Yellow Warbler � 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler � 2
Palm Warbler � 3 (2 western 1 yellow)
Yellow-rumped Warbler � 2
Black-throated Green Warbler � 2
Savannah Sparrow � 5
Song Sparrow � 1
Swamp Sparrow � 1
Scarlet Tanager � 3
Northern Cardinal � 3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak � 4
Blue Grosbeak � 4
Indigo Bunting � 1
*DICKCISSEL � 1
*BOBOLINK � 14
Red-winged Blackbird � 154
*YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD � 1 (adult male continuing)
Brown-headed Cowbird � 15
*BALTIMORE ORIOLE � 1 (immature male)
American Goldfinch � 24
SPECIES: 90
INDIVIDUALS: 1460

MAMMALS
Red Fox � 2

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail � 1
Cabbage White � 1
Orange Sulphur � 30
Clouded Sulphur � 1
Little Yellow � 1
Cloudless Sulphur � 3
Checkered White � 3
Eastern Tailed Blue � 3
Pearl Crescent � 115
Gray Hairstreak � 2
Painted Lady � 2
American Lady � 1
Red Admiral � 2
Common Buckeye � 155
Question Mark � 1
Viceroy � 2
Monarch � 145
Least Skipper - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner � 1
Needham�s Skimmer � 2
Twelve-spotted Skimmer � 1
Four-spotted Pennant � 1
Wandering Glider � 3
Black Saddlebags - 30

MOTHS
Virginian Tiger Moth � 3 (Yellow Bear)
Smeared Dagger Moth � 1 (smartweed caterpillar)
Yellow-necked Caterpillar Moth � 1 (caterpillar)
White-lined Sphinx � 1 (caterpillar)



Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
<KeyWeststyle2001...>

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