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Hart-Miller Island: December 10, 2005

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:04:59 -0800

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
December 10, 2005
0705 - 1325
Weather:   AM: sunny, 23 degrees, calm; PM: PC, 34
degrees, ESE  
               10K
Observer: Kevin Graff

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 174
Mute Swan - 54
Gadwall - 44 
American Wigeon - 111
American Black Duck - 61
Mallard - 17     
Northern Shoveler - 2
Northern Pintail - 1
Green-winged Teal - 2
*REDHEAD - 11  
*RING-NECKED DUCK - 1 (drake)
Greater Scaup - 39
Lesser Scaup - 3325
scaup sp. - 322
*LONG-TAILED DUCK - 1 (winter female)    
Bufflehead - 101 
*COMMON GOLDENEYE - 1 (drake)
Ruddy Duck - 38 
Common Loon - 2
Pied-billed Grebe - 12
Double-crested Cormorant - 2
Great Blue Heron - 1
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 2      
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (adult)
American Coot - 1316                             
Laughing Gull - 1                         
Ring-billed Gull - 98 
Herring Gull - 21
Great Black-backed Gull - 5
Mourning Dove - 26       
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1         
Downy Woodpecker - 1                     
*HORNED LARK - 15    
Carolina Chickadee - 3               
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 2                     
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1                 
American Robin - 5                       
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 26
*AMERICAN PIPIT - 7
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (Myrtle)       
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1                       
Field Sparrow - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 7
Song Sparrow - 194                   
Swamp Sparrow - 5
White-throated Sparrow - 6 
White-crowned Sparrow - 2
Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (Slate-colored) 
*SNOW BUNTING - 37
Northern Cardinal - 2                    
Red-winged Blackbird - 151
*RUSTY BLACKBIRD - 2
Brown-headed Cowbird - 16
House Finch - 10                      
American Goldfinch - 13             

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

***The Coyote might be back again, found fresh tracks
along the path that led to marshy pond at South
Cell.***
***ice builts up everywhere, few open water***

     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
     























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