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Horsehead, Swan Harbor, Williams Rd. Pond - 8/7/05

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:46:33 -0700

Hi all,


830am-1130am - 8/7/05  w/ John Dennehy
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center "Horsehead Wetland
Center" Discovery Lane, off of Perrys Corner rd.,
Grasonville, Queen Anne's Co., MD

Weather: Haze-MC-overcast then heavy rain by 11am, 
         80-77 degree, SE 8 mph - WSW 6 mph

   3  Great Blue Heron
   7  Great Egret
   5  Snowy Egret
   1  Little Blue Heron - imm.
   3  Green Heron
   1  Turkey Vulture - Grasonville
   6  Canada Goose - lowest ever
   5  Mute Swan
   1  Wood Duck
   6  American Black Duck
  10  Mallard
   4  Surf Scoter
   2  White-winged Scoter
   1  Black Scoter
  15  Osprey - two nests are in progress of rebuilding
   1  Greater Yellowlegs
   1  Spotted Sandpiper
   1  Laughing Gull
   3  Herring Gull
   4  Great Black-backed Gull
   1  Caspian Tern - flyby
   3  Common Tern
   1  Forster's Tern
   8  Least Tern
   5  Mourning Dove
   3  Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 FL
   1  Downy Woodpecker
   3  Northern Flicker
   1  Pileated Woodpecker
   3  Great-crested Flycatcher - 1 FL
   5  Eastern Kingbird - 3 FL
   1  American Crow - Grasonville
  27  Fish Crow - mobbed owl several times
   4  Purple Martin
   9  Tree Swallow
   2  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
   1  Cliff Swallow - w/ Barn
  89  Barn Swallow - staged, ready for migrating 
   3  Carolina Chickadee
   2  Tufted Titmouse
   2  Brown-headed Nuthatch
   2  Carolina Wren
   2  House Wren
   3  Eastern Bluebird
  20  American Robin
   3  Gray Catbird
   4  Northern Mockingbird
   6  Brown Thrasher - 2 FL
  47  European Starling
   2  Pine Warbler
   5  Common Yellowthroat
   6  Eastern Towhee - 1 FL
   2  Song Sparrow - one feeding cowbird chick
   2  Swamp Sparrow
  11  Northern Cardinal - 3 FL  
   2  Indigo Bunting
  71  Red-winged Blackbird - several FL  
  12  Common Grackle
   9  Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 FL
   1  House Finch
  12  American Goldfinch
 476  61 species

Mammals
   9  Eastern Cottontail

Amphibians
   5  Southern Leopard Frog - all youngs
   
Butterflies
   1  Pipevine Swallowtail
   2  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
   2  Orange Sulfer
  22  Silver-spotted Skipper    
   1  Least Skipper 

Dragonflies
   1  Bar-winged Skimmer
2209  Seaside Dragonlet
 419  Eastern Pondhawk  
   2  Faded Pennant

105pm-235pm - 8/7/05
Swan Harbor Farm, Timber Lane, Havre De Grace, Harford
Co., MD

Weather: Cloudy, 77-80 degree, ESE 8 mph- 5 mph

   2  Pied-billed Grebe
   5  Double-crested Cormorant
   5  Great Blue Heron
   6  Green Heron
   1  Turkey Vulture
   3  Wood Duck
   6  Mallard
   2  Osprey
   5  Bald Eagle
   2  Red-shouldered Hawk
   2  Semipalmated Plover
  26  Killdeer
   5  Greater Yellowlegs
  15  Lesser Yellowlegs
   4  Solitary Sandpiper
   1  Spotted Sandpiper
   3  Semipalmated Sandpiper 
  23  Least Sandpiper  
   6  Pectoral Sandpiper
   2  Ring-billed Gull
   5  Herring Gull
   4  Great Black-backed Gull
   1  Forster's Tern   
   5  Mourning Dove
   2  Yellow-billed Cuckoo - flyby east to west
   1  Eastern Phoebe - FL  
   9  Eastern Kingbird - 3 FL
  11  Purple Martin             ***Major staging of   
  53  Tree Swallow              swallows over fields 
  10  N. Rough-winged Swallow   & on wires. They're
  74  Bank Swallow              getting ready to head
   5  Cliff Swallow             south soon.***
 179  Barn Swallow
   1  Eastern Bluebird    
   2  Northern Mockingbird
  57  European Starling - mobbed Red-shouldered Hawks
   2  Common Yellowthroat
   3  Field Sparrow
   2  Song Sparrow
   3  Indigo Bunting
  62  Red-winged Blackbird
   9  Common Grackle
   5  American Goldfinch
   1  House Sparrow
 630  44 species

Mammals
   1  Eastern Cottontail

Butterflies
   3  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
   4  Zebra Swallowtail
   2  Black Swallowtail
   6  Cabbage White
   1  Checkered White
  16  Orange Sulfer
   1  Cloudless Sulfer
   1  Gray Hairstreak
   3  Meadow Fritillary
   1  American Lady
   1  Monarch
  26  Silver-spotted Skipper
   1  Northern Cloudywing
   1  Sachem
   1  Least Skipper

Dragonflies
   9  Common Green Darner
   2  Common Whitetail
   7  Twelve-spotted Skimmer
  10  Blue Dasher
   5  Golden-winged Skimmer
   2  Band-winged Meadowhawk
  11  Little Blue Dragonlet
  89  Eastern Pondhawk
  20  Black Saddlebag
   1  Carolina Saddlebag
   2  Halloween Pennant
   1  Martha's Pennant

335pm-410pm - 8/7/05
Williams Rd. Pond and along Williams Rd., Elkton, 
Cecil Co., MD

Weather: PC, 82 degree, SE 10 mph- SSE 10 mph

   1  Great Blue Heron - flyby
   1  Great Egret
   8  Little Blue Heron
   3  Cattle Egret
   1  Glossy Ibis
   3  Turkey Vulture
   2  Canada Goose
   5  Mallard
   1  Canvasback - drake
   1  Osprey - flyby
   1  Virginia Rail
   1  Black-bellied Plover - flew in as I was leaving
  10  Killdeer
   4  Greater Yellowlegs
  18  Lesser Yellowlegs
   3  Solitary Sandpiper
   2  Spotted Sandpiper
  17  Semipalmated Sandpiper
   1  Western Sandpiper
   4  Least Sandpiper
   1  Pectoral Sandpiper
   1  Short-billed Dowitcher
   4  Mourning Dove
   3  American Crow
   3  Purple Martin - flyby
   2  Tree Swallow
  11  Barn Swallow 
   1  Northern Mockingbird
   1  Chipping Sparrow
   1  Song Sparrow
   1  Blue Grosbeak
   2  Indigo Bunting
   5  Red-winged Blackbird
   8  Common Grackle
   3  American Goldfinch
 134  35 species
    
Butterflies
   2  Silver-spotted Skipper
 
Dragonflies
   2  Common Green Darner
   4  Blue Dasher
  39  Eastern Pondhawk
   1  Wandering Glider
   1  Black Saddlebag 


        Kevin Graff
        Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
        

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