Hart-Miller Island, September 23, 2006, 0715-1700.

Overcast all day, temperature about 65-80, wind SW 10-20 in the morning making land-birding difficult, decreasing to 5-10 in mid afternoon.

Observers: Steve Collins, David Curson, John Dennehy, Jim Green, Joel Martin, Bob Ringler, John Sarbanes, Nico Sarbanes.

Canada Goose  225
Mute Swan  8, including family group with three young
Wood Duck  100
Gadwall  10
Baldpate  40
Black Duck  20
Mallard  105
Blue-winged Teal  5
Shoveler  30
Pintail  6
Green-winged Teal  45
RUDDY DUCK  7, including adult female with a full-grown fuzzy-headed begging juvenile in the north corner of the north cell
Pied-billed Grebe  110
Double-crested Cormorant  30
Great Blue Heron  20
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  2
Bald Eagle  1 adult
Harrier  3
Cooper's Hawk  1 immature
Peregrine  2, playing with the harriers
Sora  3 heard in north cell
Moorhen  3
Coot  40
Black-bellied Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  20
Great Yellowlegs  6
Lesser Yellowlegs  120
HUDSONIAN GODWIT  1
Sanderling  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  120
Western Sandpiper  3
Least Sandpiper  15
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER  2
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER  1
Pectoral Sandpiper  18
STILT SANDPIPER  55
Short-billed Dowitcher  5
Laughing Gull  3
Ring-billed Gull  25
Herring Gull  180
LESSER BLACK-BACK  2, both third-winter
Great Black-back  430
Caspian Tern  145
Forster's Tern  1
Mourning Dove  30
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Flicker  2
Phoebe  3
EASTERN KINGBIRD  1
Tree Swallow  230
Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  7
Carolina Wren  3 heard
House Wren  2
Catbird  2
Mockingbird  3
Starling  210
Yellow Warbler  1
Palm Warbler  6, all Westerns
Yellowthroat  17
Savannah Sparrow  14
Song Sparrow  8
Cardinal  4 heard
Blue Grosbeak  1 heard
Indigo Bunting  1
Bobolink  12
Red-winged Blackbird  17
Cowbird  80
Goldfinch  8

--
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD