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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