Hi all,
Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 14, 2007
0710 - 1420
AM: Sunny, 68 degrees, calm; PM: Fair, 84 degrees,
ESE 9K, heat index soaring over 90+ degrees by
2pm.
Observers: Stan Arnold, Elaine Arnold, Kathy Fleming,
Kevin Graff
*There was a low shorebird count due to large amount
of phragmites in North Cell and the very high water
level being pumped at full speed to our favorite
shorebird's spot.
*SPECIES OF NOTE
*SNOW GOOSE - 1
Canada Goose - 140
Mute Swan - 2
Wood Duck - 59
Gadwall - 2 (pair)
American Black Duck - 29
Mallard - 115
Lesser Scaup - 2 (drakes)
Ruddy Duck - 6 (4 drakes, 2 hens)
Double-crested Cormorant - 71
Pied-billed Grebe - 121 (41 youngs)
*LEAST BITTERN - 2
Great Blue Heron - 34
Great Egret - 13
Snowy Egret - 2
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 (adult)
Glossy Ibis - 7
Osprey - 11
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon - 1
*COMMON MOORHEN - 1 (heard calling)
American Coot - 14
Killdeer - 29
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 9
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 13
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 185
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 2
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 26
peep sp. - 19
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 36
Laughing Gull - 44
Bonaparte's Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 39
Herring Gull - 279
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (1st summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 281
Caspian Tern - 89
Common Tern - 6
Least Tern - 42
*BLACK TERN - 1
*BLACK SKIMMER - 1 (adult, seen in good view by all)
Mourning Dove - 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Chimney Swift - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 6
Tree Swallow - 68
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 6
Bank Swallow - 54
Barn Swallow - 232
Marsh Wren - 4
Gray Catbird - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 91
Yellow Warbler - 4
Pine Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 11
Song Sparrow - 36
Swamp Sparrow - 6
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Bobolink - 1 (male)
Red-winged Blackbird - 255
Common Grackle - 2 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 8
Orchard Oriole - 5
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 14
MAMMALS
Muskrat - 2
BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail - 2
Black Swallowtail - 6
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 39
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 40
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Summer Azure - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 2
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Monarch - 2
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Duskywing sp. - 1
European Skipper - 1
Broad-winged Skipper - 2
MOTHS
Salt Marsh - 3 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Milkweed Tussock Moth - 37 (caterpillars)
Yellow-Collared Scape Moth - 4
Virginia Ctenucha - 1
DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 24
Twelve-spotted Skimmer- 1 (female)
Needham's Skimmer - 93
Seaside Dragonlet - 1
Blue Dasher - 114
Eastern Pondhawk - 52
Wandering Glider - 5
Carolina Saddlebags - 1
Black Saddlebags - 10
Four-spotted Pennant - 1
Halloween Pennant - 26
DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 8
Rambur's Forktail - 21
MISCELLANCOUS INSECTS
Punctured Tiger Beetle - 6
Red Milkweed Beetle - 2
Large Milkweed Bug - 26
Seaside Grasshopper - 1
Carolina Grasshopper - 6
Kevin Graff
West Ocean City, MD
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