Date: 5/20/13 6:17 pm
From: Kevin Graff <keyweststyle2001...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Hart-Miller Island, 05/20/13
05/20/13 � 715am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 66-74 degrees, SSE 2K- SE 4K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, John Landers

Canada Goose � 24 (18 adults, 6 goslings)
Wood Duck � 7
Gadwall � 2 (pair)
American Black Duck � 1 (drake)
Mallard � 33
Lesser Scaup � 1 (drake)
Ruddy Duck � 30
*RED-THROATED LOON � 1 (trailing Common Loon toward NE)
Common Loon � 4
Pied-billed Grebe � 3
Double-crested Cormorant � 16
Great Blue Heron � 10
Great Egret � 2
Snowy Egret � 7
Osprey � 11
Bald Eagle � 1 (immature)
Northern Harrier � 1
Peregrine Falcon � 1
American Coot � 1
Black-bellied Plover � 132
Semipalmated Plover � 4
Killdeer � 8
*BLACK-NECKED STILT � 1
Spotted Sandpiper � 9
Lesser Yellowlegs � 1
*RUDDY TURNSTONE � 2
*SANDERLING � 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper � 33
Least Sandpiper � 14
Peep sp � 5
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER � 1
Dunlin � 9
*BONAPARTE'S GULL � 1 (1st summer)
Laughing Gull � 3 (1 breeding plumage adult, 2 1st summer)
Ring-billed Gull � 39
Herring Gull � 22
Great Black-backed Gull � 62
Least Tern � 1
Caspian Tern � 153
Common Tern � 4 (2 breeding plumage adults, 2 1st summer)
Forster�s Tern � 1 (non-breeding adult)
Mourning Dove � 5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo � 1
Downy Woodpecker � 1
Willow Flycatcher � 1
Empid fly � 1
Great Crested Flycatcher � 1
Eastern Kingbird � 7
Red-eyed Vireo � 2
Fish Crow � 4
Purple Martin � 1
Tree Swallow � 16
Barn Swallow � 26
Carolina Chickadee � 1
Carolina Wren � 2
Marsh Wren � 2
Wood Thrush � 2
American Robin � 1
Gray Catbird � 8
European Starling � 11
Cedar Waxwing � 10
Black-and-white Warbler � 1
*TENNESSEE WARBLER � 1
Common Yellowthroat � 46
American Redstart � 3
Northern Parula � 3
Magnolia Warbler � 1
Blackpoll Warbler � 4
Yellow Warbler � 13
Chestnut-sided Warbler � 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler � 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler � 2
Savannah Sparrow � 2
Song Sparrow � 3
Swamp Sparrow � 2
White-throated Sparrow � 3
*WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW � 1 (adult)
Northern Cardinal � 7
Blue Grosbeak � 4
Indigo Bunting � 2
Red-winged Blackbird � 81
Common Grackle � 8
Brown-headed Cowbird � 9
Orchard Oriole � 12
House Finch � 4
American Goldfinch � 11
SPECIES: 84
INDIVIDUALS: 991

MAMMALS
Red Fox (fresh tracks)
Raccoon (fresh tracks)
White-tailed Deer (fresh tracks)

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail � 5
Spicebush Swallowtail � 1
Cabbage White � 2
Orange Sulphur � 3
Cloudless Sulphur � 1
Painted Lady � 1
Pearl Crescent � 3
Silver-spotted Skipper � 1
Common Sootywing � 2
Wild Indigo Duskywing � 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner � 3
Black Saddlebags � 2

MOTHS
Eastern Tent Caterpillar � 50+

BEETLES
Clover Stem Borer � 2
Multi-colored Asian Lady Beetle � 1

**next survey will be this Sat for MOS conference all-day 4+-mile trip**


Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
<KeyWeststyle2001...>

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