Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 19, 2008
0700 - 1500
AM: Sunny, 77 degrees, SSW 10K; PM: Fair, 90 degrees, SSE 17K
Observer: Kevin Graff

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 83
Mute Swan - 1
Wood Duck - 39
Gadwall - 10
American Wigeon - 2 (females)
American Black Duck - 12
Mallard - 282 (one with 8 ducklings)
Northern Shoveler - 1 (male)
Ring-necked Duck - 3 (1 male, 2 females)
Lesser Scaup - 1 (female)
Ruddy Duck - 16
Pied-billed Grebe - 18 (incl. several youngs)
Double-crested Cormorant - 36
Least Bittern - 1
Great Blue Heron - 28
Great Egret - 41
Snowy Egret - 9
Little Blue Heron - 2
Glossy Ibis - 16
Osprey - 14 
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adults) (at Craighill Channel Lighthouse)
*COMMON MOORHEN - 1 (North Cell, no vegatation cover at South Cell)
American Coot - 1 
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 15
Killdeer - 19
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 8 (incl. 2 youngs)
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 18 (incl. 1 possible young near adult plumage)
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 6
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 5
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 199
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 57
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 19
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 764
unidentified peep species - 91
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 7
*STILT SANDPIPER - 10
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 81
Laughing Gull - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 201
Herring Gull - 39
Great Black-backed Gull - 498
Least Tern - 4
Caspian Tern - 192
Common Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 28
*ROYAL TERN - 1
Mourning Dove - 12
Northern Flicker - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 9
Tree Swallow - 9
Bank Swallow - 66 (staging for possible early migration)
Barn Swallow - 58
Carolina Wren - 1
House Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 2
Gray Catbird - 8
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 72
Yellow Warbler - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 13
Song Sparrow - 29
Swamp Sparrow - 8
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 126
Common Grackle - 2 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 44
Orchard Oriole - 5
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 24
SPECIES: 71
TOTAL BIRDS: 3389

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail - 1
Black Swallowtail - 4
Cabbage White - 16
Clouded Sulphur - 2
Orange Sulphur - 21
Cloudless Sulphur - 2
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Summer Azure - 2
Eastern Tailed Blue - 2
Pearl Crescent - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Monarch - 3
Least Skipper - 2
Broad-winged Skipper - 1

MOTHS
Milkweed Tussock Moth - 1
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 4

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 8
Needham's Skimmer - 88
Blue Dasher - 35
Eastern Pondhawk - 29 
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 1
Black Saddlebags - 15
Halloween Pennant - 5

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 5
Rambur's Forktail - 22

MISCELLANCOUS INSECTS (strong southern breeze kept other insects low)
Punctured Tiger Beetle - 3
Large Milkweed Bug - 2


    Kevin Graff
    West Ocean City, MD