Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 20,2005
0715 - 1655
Weather: AM: Cloudy, 75 degree, calm
         PM: Haze, 84 degree, SE 8K
Observers: Stan & Elaine Arnold, Tom Feild, Danny
Bystrak (butterfly counter), Kevin Graff (official
counter)
 
 *SPECIES OF NOTES

   *PIED-BILLED GREBE - 67
   Double-crested Cormorant - 54
   Great Blue Heron - 10
   Great Egret - 5
   Snowy Egret - 5
   *LEAST BITTERN - 1
   Canada Goose - 106
   Mute Swan - 9
   Wood Duck - 14
   American Black Duck - 14
   Am Black/Mallard hybrid - 4
   Mallard - 401
   Blue-winged Teal - 2
   Green-winged Teal - 12
   Northern Shoveler - 7
   Ruddy Duck - 3
   Osprey - 8
   Peregrine Falcon - 1
   American Kestrel - 1
   *AMERICAN COOT - 10 (5 ad, 5 imm.)
   *SEMIPAMLATED PLOVER - 58
   Killdeer - 18
   *AMERICAN AVOCET - 49
   *GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 16
   *LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 252
   *SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 5
   *SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 12
   *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 2822
   *WESTERN SANDPIPER - 209
   *LEAST SANDPIPER - 505
   peep sp. - 105
   *DUNLIN - 1
   *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 6
   *PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 7
   *STILT SANDPIPER - 38
   *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 2
   *MARBLED GODWIT - 1 (juv.)
   *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 57
   Laughing Gull - 130
   Ring-billed Gull - 215
   Herring Gull - 45
   Great Black-backed Gull - 966
   Lesser Black-backed Gull?? - 1 (1st summer)
   Caspian Tern - 520
   Forster's Tern - 1
   Rock Pigeon - 3
   Mourning Dove - 42
   Chimney Swift - 2
   Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
   Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5
   Eastern Kingbird - 7
   Purple Martin - 97 most ready to head SW
   Tree Swallow - 2
   Bank Swallow - 25
   Barn Swallow - 85
   Carolina Chickadee - 1
   Carolina Wren - 5
   Marsh Wren - 1
   Gray Catbird - 2
   European Starling - 284
   Cedar Waxwing - 1
   Yellow Warbler - 8
   Common Yellowthroat - 7
   *GRASSHOPPER SPARROW - 1
   Song Sparrow - 26
   Swamp Sparrow - 9
   Northern Cardinal - 2
   Indigo Bunting - 3
   Blue Grosbeak - 2
   Bobolink - 27
   Red-winged Blackbird - 228
   Common Grackle - 1 
   Brown-headed Cowbird - 16
   Orchard Oriole - 2
   House Finch - 5
   American Goldfinch - 41


Amphibians
   Fowler's Toad - 2
   Southern Leopard Frog - 1
  
Butterflies
 **Danny Bystrak still have the report**
  
Dragonflies
   Common Green Darner - 22
   Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 31
   Black Saddlebag - 16
   Carolina Saddlebag - 5
   Eastern Pondhawk - 28
   Needham's Skimmer - 51     
   
Damselflies
   2  bluet sp.
   4  Rambur Forktail  


       Kevin Graff
       Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
       


   


		
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