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Hart-Miller Island: October 21, 2006

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:00:40 -0700

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 21, 2006
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: Sunny, 46 degrees, W 7 K 
         PM: PC, 57 degrees, WNW 15 K
Observer: Kevin Graff

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 198
Mute Swan - 21
Wood Duck - 21
Gadwall - 19 
American Wigeon - 164
American Black Duck - 26
Mallard - 135
Blue-winged Teal - 3 (2 males, 1 female)
Northern Shoveler - 255
Northern Pintail - 215
Green-winged Teal - 1033  
Lesser Scaup - 3 (1 male, 2 female)
Ruddy Duck - 93
Pied-billed Grebe - 53
Double-crested Cormorant - 51
Great Blue Heron - 27
Great Egret - 1
Glossy Ibis - 1 (still around) 
Bald Eagle - 2 (adults)
Northern Harrier - 2 (immatures)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (immature)
American Kestrel - 2
American Coot - 480
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 3
*KILLDEER - 1                      
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 1 
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 25
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 2
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 10
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 17
*DUNLIN - 37
*STILT SANDPIPER - 16
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 8 (5 juvenile, 3 winter) 
Laughing Gull - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 47
Herring Gull - 22
Great Black-backed Gull - 44
Caspian Tern - 13 
Forster's Tern - 78
Mourning Dove - 33
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 1 (Yellow-shafted)
Eastern Phoebe - 2
*BLUE-HEADED VIREO - 1  
Tree Swallow - 326
Tufted Titmouse - 2
Carolina Wren - 6
Marsh Wren - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 14
European Starling - 843
*AMERICAN PIPIT - 1 
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 61 (Myrtle)
Palm Warbler - 3 (2 western, 1 yellow)
Chipping Sparrow - 18 (fallout after sunrise)
Field Sparrow - 2 (w/ Chippers)
Savannah Sparrow - 8
Song Sparrow - 132
*LINCOLN'S SPARROW - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 9
White-throated Sparrow - 2
White-crowned Sparrow - 2 (immature)
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 352
Common Grackle - 1 (Purple)
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 6

MAMMALS
Raccoon - 1 (young)
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 4
Orange Sulphur - 41
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Eastern Comma - 2 (orange fall morph)
American Lady - 1
Common Buckeye - 56
Red Admiral - 6
*MONARCH - 348 (38 liftoff am, 163 to roost pm)
unidentified skipper sp. - 6

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger - 1 (Woolly Bear)
Virginian Tiger - 5 (Yellow Bears)
Yellow-collared Scape - 12

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 5
Black Saddlebags - 1

DAMSELFLIES
Rambur's Forktail - 332
Spreadwing sp. - 1
Bluets sp. - 3


Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD






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