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Hart-Miller Island: September 10, 2005

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Hans Holbrook

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Hans Holbrook

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Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:36:57 +0000

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 10, 2005
0715 - 1650
Weather: hazy morning clearing by late morning, sunny in the afternoon
Observers: Jim Stasz, Winger West, Danny Bystrak, John Hubble, Jim Brighton, 
Matt Hafner, Kevin Graff, Hans Holbrook


*SPECIES OF NOTE


Mute Swan - 11
Wood Duck - 31
Gadwall - 2
Northern Pintail - 2
American Wigeon - 4
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 102
Blue-winged Teal - 21
Northern Shoveler - 116
Green-winged Teal - 301
Ruddy Duck - 3
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 62
Double-crested Cormorant - 32
*LEAST BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 29
Great Egret - 14
Snowy Egret - 19
Little Blue Heron - 1 (adult)
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (imm.)
Glossy Ibis - 1
Osprey - 3
Bald Eagle - 2
Northern Harrier - 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 2
American Kestrel - 1
Merlin - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
*COMMON MOORHEN - 2
*AMERICAN COOT - 7
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 9
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 3
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 36
Killdeer - 15
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 47
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 112
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*SANDERLING - 2
*DUNLIN - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 580
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 104
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 15
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 12
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 2
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 9
*STILT SANDPIPER - 35
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 50
*WOODCOCK - 1 (dead)
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 2
Laughing Gull - 26
Ring-billed Gull - 125
Herring Gull - 163
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (adult)
Great Black-backed Gull - 587
Caspian Tern - 496
small Sterna sp. - 1
Mourning Dove - 56
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Chimney Swift - 30
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood Pewee - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 3
Eastern Kingbird - 1
Vireo sp. - 1
Purple Martin - 2
Tree Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 2
Cliff Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 2
House Wren - 3
Carolina Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
Gray Catbird - 19
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 134
Cedar Waxwing - 6
*AMERICAN PIPIT - 2 (MD early arrival 9/9/05)
Yellow Warbler - 4
Palm Warbler - 1 (western)
American Redstart - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 38
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 19
Swamp Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 4
Blue Grosbeak - 2
*BOBOLINK - 44
Red-winged Blackbird - 153
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
Oriole sp. - 1
American Goldfinch - 56

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
Shrew sp. - 1 (dead)

REPTILES
snake sp. - 1
Southern Leopard Frog - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 6
Spicebush Swallowtail - 3
*GIANT SWALLOWTAIL - 1  [new for island]
Checkered White - 3
Cabbage White - 20
Clouded Sulphur - 14
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 7 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 305
Cloudless Sulphur - 5
Gray Hairstreak - 55
Eastern Tailed Blue - 27
Summer Azure - 1
Snout - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 12
Pearl Crescent - 202
American Lady - 1
Painted Lady - 22
Red Admiral - 1
Buckeye - 19
Red-spotted Purple - 5
Viceroy - 4
*COMMON WOOD NYMPH - 1 (southern form) [2nd for island]
Monarch - 251
Silver-spotted Skipper - 6
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 2
Common Sootywing - 1
Least Skipper - 14
Sachem - 37
*PECK'S SKIPPER - 2 [new for island]
*OCOLA SKIPPER - 1 [new for island]

MOTHS
Chickweed Geometer - 6
Looper - 10
Wooly Bear - 3
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 3
Datana sp. - 3 (caterpillars)
Achemon Sphinx - 1 (caterpillar)
Milkweed Tussock Caterpillar - 3


DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 31
Swamp Darner - 2
Halloween Pennant - 5
Eastern Pondhawk - 55
Needham's Skimmer - 13
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 4
Blue Dasher - 66
Wandering Glider - 3
Spot-winged Glider - 1
Black Saddlebags - 13

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 16
Bluet sp. - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 50

Hans Holbrook
Columbia, MD

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