Hart-Miller Dredged Material Containment Facility, Baltimore County
September 1, 2007
Sunny, windy to breezy, moderately hot
Observers: Barbara Gearhart, Brad Lanning, Joel Martin, Bob Ringler, Fred Shaffer, Jim Stasz, Debbie Terry. Everyone chipped in to build the list that includes 13 waterfowl, 5 herons, 7 raptors, 21 shorebirds, and 5 warblers.

Snow Goose  1, present all summer
Canada Goose  88
Mute Swan  6
Wood Duck  55
Gadwall  4
American Wigeon  3
Black Duck  4
Mallard  1,220
Blue-winged Teal  65
Shoveler  145
Pintail  4
Green-winged Teal  80
Ruddy Duck  6
Pied-billed Grebe  40
Double-crested Cormorant  55
Great Blue Heron  14
Great Egret  36
Snowy Egret  12
Tricolored Heron  3
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1 immature
Glossy Ibis  4
Osprey  6
Bald Eagle  4 (2 adults, 2 immatures)
Harrier  3
Cooper's Hawk  1
Kestrel  2
Merlin  2
Peregrine  2 immatures
Moorhen  4
Coot  35 (1 downy young)
Black-bellied Plover  2
Semipalmated Plover  70
Killdeer  8
Black-necked Stilt  1, only four later reports for the state
Avocet  73
Spotted Sandpiper  5
Greater Yellowlegs  8
Lesser Yellowlegs  390
Ruddy Turnstone  8
Red Knot  7, all juveniles
Sanderling  7
Semipalmated Sandpiper  600
Western Sandpiper  40
Least Sandpiper  60
White-rumped Sandpiper  15
Baird's Sandpiper  2
Pectoral Sandpiper  4
Stilt Sandpiper  5
Short-billed Dowitcher  50
Long-billed Dowitcher  3, thanks to Jim
Wilson's Phalarope  3, seen at considerable distance, thanks to Jim again
Unidentified Phalarope (probably not Wilson's)  1
Laughing Gull  310
Ring-billed Gull  165
Herring Gull  14
Great Black-back  410
Caspian Tern  360
Feral Pigeon  3
Mourning Dove  65
Chimney Swift  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  7
Downy Woodpecker  3
Pewee  1 heard
Eastern Kingbird  2
Purple Martin  3
Tree Swallow  6
Bank Swallow  8
Barn Swallow  25
Unidentified swallows  40
Tufted Titmouse  1 heard
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1, thanks to Debbie
Carolina Wren  8
Catbird  6
Mockingbird  4
Starling  350, many feasting on midges clinging to the pipeline
Yellow Warbler  7
Magnolia Warbler  1
Myrtle Warbler  1, surprisingly early
Redstart  2
Common Yellowthroat  23
Song Sparrow  9
Swamp Sparrow  1 heard
Cardinal  6
Blue Grosbeak  1 male
Indigo Bunting  2
Bobolink  6 flying over
Red-winged Blackbird  565, many feasting on midges clinging to the pipeline
Cowbird  3
House Finch  3
Goldfinch  18

Additional birds nearby: On the mainland at the dock on Back River Neck Jim found a Least Flycatcher and Wilson's Warbler before the trip and a very colorful Philadelphia Vireo seen by several of us after the trip. On the boat ride out to Hart-Miller a flock of about 80 Forster's Terns suddenly appeared out of nowhere and just as rapidly disappeared.


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Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD