Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 5, 2006
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: sunny, 68 degrees, WNW 3 K 
         PM: sunny, 90 degrees, NW 9 K 
Observers: George Jett, Kevin Graff, Brad Lanning, 
           Greg Futrel

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 133
Mute Swan - 6
Wood Duck - 40
Gadwall - 14
American Black Duck - 24
Mallard - 105 (including 9 downy young)
Ruddy Duck - 6 (4 male, 2 female)
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 111
Double-crested Cormorant - 43
*LEAST BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 19
Great Egret - 8
Snowy Egret - 1
*LITTLE BLUE HERON - 1 (adult)
*TRICOLORED HERON - 1 (adult)
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (adult & juvenile)
Osprey - 18
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
*COMMON MOORHEN - 2 (adult)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 13
*KILLDEER - 10
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 7
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 6
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 6
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 33
*MARBLED GODWIT - 2
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 20
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 8
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 71
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
unidentified peep sp. - 21
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 1
*STILT SANDPIPER - 6
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 38
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 2
Laughing Gull - 74
*BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1 (winter plumage adult)
Ring-billed Gull - 994
Herring Gull - 18
Great Black-backed Gull - 514
Caspian Tern - 161
**SANDWICH TERN - 1 (winter plumage adult)
*COMMON TERN - 2
Forster's Tern - 47
Least Tern - 3
Mourning Dove - 29
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Great-crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 9
Purple Martin - 17
Tree Swallow - 14
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 18
Barn Swallow - 38
Carolina Wren - 3
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 11
American Robin - 4
Gray Catbird - 6
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 138
Yellow Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 11
Eastern Towhee - 3 (FL, fledged young)
Song Sparrow - 23
Swamp Sparrow - 9
Northern Cardinal - 6
Blue Grosbeak - 7
Indigo Bunting - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 160
Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
Orchard Oriole - 3
House Finch - 13
American Goldfinch - 24

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail - 2
Black Swallowtail - 40
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 14 (4 black female; 10
                                yellow)
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 42
Orange Sulphur - 39
Cloudless Sulphur - 9
Gray Hairstreak - 6
Eastern Tailed Blue - 30
Summer Azure - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 5
Pearl Crescent - 19
Common Buckeye - 14
Viceroy - 3 
Monarch - 77 
Silver-spotted Skipper - 29
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 6
Least Skipper - 1

MOTHS
*FALL WEBWORM - 452 (caterpillars) [NEW TO ISLAND]
Spotted Datana - 36 (caterpillars)

DRAGONFLIES - 4000+ at cross dike between N & S cell
Common Green Darner - 66
Halloween Pennant - 15
Eastern Pondhawk - 156
Common Whitetail - 1
Needham's Skimmer - 448
Blue Dasher - 101
Eastern Amberwing - 2
Carolina Saddlebags - 1
Black Saddlebags - 45

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 8
Rambur's Forktail - 3


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD 
    



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