This is the list for Hart-Miller Island, Baltimore Co. on 4/26/08. With me today were Gwen Brewer and George Jett. The weather was mostly cloudy to start, with little wind, to mostly clear later and very windy. Water levels are very high.

Canada Goose  70, many young
Mute Swan  4
Wood Duck  3, flew over
Gadwall  12
Black Duck  8
Mallard  42
Blue-winged Teal  2, Gwen only
Shoveler  9
Pintail  1, Gwen only
Green-winged Teal  225
Bufflehead  1, male, off Hart Island
Ruddy Duck  125
Pied-billed Grebe  19
DC Cormorant  26
LEAST BITTERN  2, both heard, one seen well
Great Blue Heron  21
Great Egret  8
Osprey  10
Bald Eagle  1, adult
Harrier  2
Virginia Rail  3, one flushed, two heard only
SORA  1, heard only
Coot  90
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER  90, including 73 in one flock
Killdeer  19
BLACK-NECKED STILT  2
AVOCET  1, breeding plumage
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  7
Lesser Yellowlegs  23
Least Sandpiper  40
Dunlin  55
Short-billed Dowitcher  1
Snipe  2
Bonaparte's Gull  1, immature
Ring-billed Gull  95
Herring Gull  395
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL  1, fourth-summer plumage
Great Black-backed Gull  70
LEAST TERN  2
Caspian Tern  145
COMMON TERN  1
Mourning Dove  8
Downy Woodpecker  1, heard only
Kingbird  4
White-eyed Vireo  1, heard only
Blue Jay  62, migrating
Fish Crow  5, or one five times
Tree Swallow  50
Barn Swallow  17
Carolina Wren  5, heard only
House Wren  2, heard only
Marsh Wren  5, heard only
Robin  4
Catbird  2
Starling  9
Yellow Warbler  8
WESTERN PALM WARBLER  1
Yellowthroat  32, for those who missed them today
Savannah Sparrow  12
Song Sparrow  34
Swamp Sparrow  11
White-throated Sparrow  1, heard only
Cardinal  2, heard only
Indigo Bunting  1, male flew by, Bob only
Red-winged Blackbird  90
Common Grackle  7
Cowbird  28
House Finch  5
Goldfinch  19

Other highlight: a brood of six baby Red Foxes among the 11 seen today.

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD