MD: Baltimore Co: Hart-Miller Island	16 Sep 2006
Observers: Jonathan Alderfer, Don Burggraf, Sherman Suter

0710*1655 EDT: N along circumference road from dock to cross-dike (0845); doubled back and followed sprinkler pipe S across W corner of S cell; then E keeping between pond and canal nearly to cross dike (1105); to N point 1330; 1415*1555 at SW corner of water in N cell; back to dock by 1640; circa 12 km;

19 to 25 C;  NNW 15-20 km/hr at 0700; NNW to NNE 0 to 10 km/hr through day; overcast with intermittent mist, drizzle, light rain to 1030; overcast to 1315, then partly cloudy, with frequent bright sun;  Rocky Point low tide 1100, high tide 1520;  relatively little shoreflats around ponds in S cell; water in N cell pond at 36 ft, with no exposed bars or flats along inside of N cell dike; large gull & tern flocks and most shorebirds near SW corer of this pond;  several groups of smaller shorebirds feeding in puddles in muddy tracks on top of dikes;

Canada Goose     102
Mute Swan     12  (9 ad, 3 im)
Wood Duck    210
Gadwall     24
American Wigeon     5
American Black Duck     9
Mallard     115
N Shoveler     96
Green-winged Teal     335
Ruddy Duck     5
Pied-billed Grebe     108   (a few  juv)
Double-crested Cormorant     94
Great Blue Heron     39
Great Egret     12
Snowy Egret     5
Black-crowned Night-Heron     1   (im)
Osprey     2
Bald Eagle     2   (1 ad, 1 im)
Northern Harrier     6  (all f or im)
Red-tailed Hawk     1   (im)
Peregrine Falcon     1
Virginia Rail     4   (h.o.)
Sora     1   (h.o.)
Common Gallinule (aka Moorhen)     5
American Coot     16
Black-bellied Plover     11
American Golden-Plover     2  (juv)
Semipalmated Plover     17
Killdeer     2
American Avocet     3
Greater Yellowlegs     3
Lesser Yellowlegs     104
Sanderling     12   (juv)
Semipalmated Sandpiper     108
Least Sandpiper     26
peep spp     130
White-rumped Sandpiper     2
Pectoral Sandpiper     4
Stilt Sandpiper     9
Short-billed Dowitcher     2
Buff-breasted Sandpiper     1   (juv)
Laughing Gull     95
Ring-billed Gull     205
Herring Gull     95
Lesser Black-backed Gull     1   (3rd winter)
Great Black-backed Gull     610
Caspian Tern     280
Forster's Tern     4
Mourning Dove     82
Chimney Swift     2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     2
Eastern Kingbird     1
crow spp     6
Purple Martin     1
Tree Swallow     325
N Rough-winged Swallow     15
Bank Swallow     1
Barn Swallow     85
Carolina Wren     13
House Wren     4
Marsh Wren     2
Gray Catbird     14
N Mockingbird     4
European Starling     575
Yellow Warbler     2
Common Yellowthroat     29
Savannah Sparrow     1
Song Sparrow     34
Swamp Sparrow     4
N Cardinal     12
Blue Grosbeak     1
Indigo Bunting     3
Bobolink     45
Red-winged Blackbird     1350
Brown-headed Cowbird     11
House Finch     9
American Goldfinch     21

On trip over to island, 0655*0710 EDT:
Mallard     12
Double-crested Cormorant     20
Osprey     1
Laughing Gull     55
Bonaparte's Gull     20
Ring-billed Gull     18
Herring Gull     3
Great Black-backed Gull     4
Caspian Tern     3
Forster's Tern     5


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