Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 20, 2006
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: MC, 57 degrees, calm- N 10 mph    
         PM: PC, 72 degrees, WNW 18 mph
Observers: Brad Lanning, Kevin Graff


*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 36 (including 13 downy young)
Mute Swan - 26
Gadwall - 7
American Wigeon - 2 (pair)
American Black Duck - 10
Mallard - 36
Blue-winged Teal - 2 (pair)
Greater Scaup - 2 (males)
Ruddy Duck - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 9
Double-crested Cormorant - 34
Least Bittern (seen well)
Great Blue Heron - 20 
Great Egret - 5
Snowy Egret - 1
Cattle Egret - 3
Osprey - 9
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 1 (female)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
American Coot - 5
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 7
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 168
*KILLDEER - 6 (nest with 0 eggs in North Cell)
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 5
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 7
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 222
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 3
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 586
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 1
*DUNLIN - 98
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 5
Ring-billed Gull - 18
Herring Gull - 13
Great Black-backed Gull - 227
Caspian Tern - 205
Royal Tern - 1
Least Tern - 4
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 13
Chimney Swift - 10 (headed NE)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 3
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 8
Purple Martin - 5
Tree Swallow - 152
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3
Bank Swallow - 19
Barn Swallow - 30
Carolina Wren - 1
House Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 1
American Robin - 2
Gray Catbird - 8
Northern Mockingbird - 4
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 7
Cedar Waxwing - 1
Yellow Warbler - 14
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 22
Savannah Sparrow - 1
*NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW - 1
Song Sparrow - 39
Swamp Sparrow - 10
Northern Cardinal - 4
Blue Grosbeak - 2 (pair)
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 119
Common Grackle - 8 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 10
Orchard Oriole - 7 (2 1st-sum M, 2 M, 3 F)
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 13

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2 (mother & pup)

AMPHIBIANS
Southern Leopard Frog - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 6
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3
Orange Sulphur - 5
Clouded Sulphur - 3
Gray Hairstreak - 2
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 22
Silver-spotted Skipper - 3

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 2
Needham's Skimmer - 1
Black Saddlebag - 2

DAMSELFLIES
bluet sp. - 5
Rambur's Forktail - 2


       Kevin Graff
       Jarrettsville, MD
       





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