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Observations at Hart-Miller Island

05/03/08 - 0710am-1700pm
Hart-Miller Island Dredged Material Containment
Facility, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

AM: overcast, 57 degrees, ENE 9K; PM: haze, 69
    degrees, NE 12K, Gusting briefly at 17K around
    noon 
OBSERVER: Kevin Graff

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 43 (3 pairs w/ 4, 14, 5 goslings)
Mute Swan - 1 
Wood Duck - 1
Gadwall - 10
American Black Duck - 18
Mallard - 44
Blue-winged Teal - 2
Northern Shoveler - 4
Green-winged Teal - 202
Ruddy Duck - 80
Common Loon - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 28
Double-crested Cormorant - 41
Least Bittern - 1
Great Blue Heron - 36
Great Egret - 5
Snowy Egret - 2
Osprey - 14
Bald Eagle - 2 (adults)
Northern Harrier - 2 (immature male, adult female)
Merlin - 2 (adults, attacking dove & blackbirds)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
American Coot - 92 (one carrying nesting materials)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 62
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 68
Killdeer - 10
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 6
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 3
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 4 (all in one spot at puddle)
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 26
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 194
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 82
*DUNLIN - 77
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 16
Wilson's Snipe - 1
Bonaparte's Gull - 8
Ring-billed Gull - 31
Herring Gull - 184
Great Black-backed Gull - 80
Caspian Tern - 161 
Mourning Dove - 6
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Blue-headed Vireo - 1
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 36
Barn Swallow - 28
Tufted Titmouse - 1
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
American Robin - 4
Gray Catbird - 13
European Starling - 12
Yellow Warbler - 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (male)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 42
Palm Warbler - 2 (Western)
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 30
*VESPER SPARROW - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 10
Song Sparrow - 30
Swamp Sparrow - 16
White-throated Sparrow - 8
Northern Cardinal - 5
Blue Grosbeak - 1
*BOBOLINK - 36
Red-winged Blackbird - 153
Common Grackle - 42
Brown-headed Cowbird - 8
Orchard Oriole - 1
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 6
SPECIES: 75
TOTAL BIRDS: 2153

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 3
Red Fox - 8 (3 adults, 5 pups)

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 2
Cabbage White - 2
Orange Sulphur - 3
Eastern Tailed Blue - 6
American Lady - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 4

MOTHS
Eastern Tent Caterpillar - 215 (18 nests)

BEETLES
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 3 (state park beach)
Multi-colored Asian Beetle - 1
Lady beetle sp. - 1



   Kevin Graff
   Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
   



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