Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 19, 2006
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: MC, 75 degrees, 2 K; 
         PM: MC, 88 degrees, 8 K; 12 K at 5pm 
Observers:  Kevin Graff, Brad Lanning

*SPECIES OF NOTE 

Canada Goose - 126
Mute Swan - 16 (13 adult, 3 immature) 
Wood Duck - 27
American Black Duck - 12
Mallard - 191
Northern Shoveler - 5 (2 male, 3 female)
Green-winged Teal - 12 (5 male, 5 female)
Ruddy Duck - 6 (4 male, 2 female)
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 91
Double-crested Cormorant - 85
Great Blue Heron - 28
Great Egret - 10
Snowy Egret - 6
*TRICOLORED HERON - 2
Osprey - 12
Bald Eagle - 1 (immature)
Northern Harrier - 1 (immature)
American Kestrel - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
unidentified rail sp. - 2 (heard again)
*COMMON MOORHEN - 1 (juvenile)
*AMERICAN COOT - 1 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 4
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 29
*KILLDEER - 16
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 12
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 6
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 41
*SANDERLING - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 216
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 3
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 78
unidentified peep sp. - 18
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1 (juvenile)
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 1
*STILT SANDPIPER - 2
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 30
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 1 (juvenile)
Laughing Gull - 87
Ring-billed Gull - 253
Herring Gull - 35
Great Black-backed Gull - 1058
Caspian Tern - 371
Forster's Tern - 8
Mourning Dove - 40
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 6
Purple Martin - 19
Tree Swallow - 7
Bank Swallow - 14
Barn Swallow - 141
Carolina Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 1
American Robin - 5
Gray Catbird - 4
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 114
Cedar Waxwing - 3
Yellow Warbler - 4
Prairie Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 8
Song Sparrow - 24
Swamp Sparrow - 10
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 168
Brown-headed Cowbird - 34
Orchard Oriole - 1
House Finch - 12
American Goldfinch - 13

MAMMALS
Raccoon - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 14
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 4 (yellow)
Spicebush Swallowtail - 4
Cabbage White - 6
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 18
Cloudless Sulphur - 3
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Pearl Crescent - 7
Common Buckeye - 1
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Viceroy - 3
Monarch - 36
Silver-spotted Skipper - 2

MOTHS
Spotted Datana - 267 (caterpillars - newly hatched)
Yellow-necked Caterpillar - 1
unidentified Datana sp. - 1 (caterpillar)
Salt Marsh - 7 (caterpillars - 5 brown, 2 yellow) 
Fall Webworm - 32 (caterpillars - newly hatched)
Milkweed Tussock - 336 (caterpillars - newly hatched)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 34
Halloween Pennant - 2
Eastern Pondhawk - 34
Needham's Skimmer - 137
Blue Dasher - 256
Wandering Glider - 8
Black Saddlebags - 31

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 18
Orange Bluet - 1 (male)
Rambur's Forktail - 116


Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD




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