Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 9, 2008
0705 - 1655
Weather: AM: Sunny, 62 degrees, WNW 8 K; PM: PC, 82 degrees, NNW 7 K
Observers:  Don Burggraf, Kevin Graff, Joe Hanfman, Brad Lanning, Taylor
            McLean, Fred Shaffer

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 33
Wood Duck - 31
Gadwall - 2
American Black Duck - 12
Mallard - 92
Northern Shoveler - 1 (female)
Northern Pintail - 1 
Green-winged Teal - 7 
Lesser Scaup - 1 (female)
Ruddy Duck - 8
Pied-billed Grebe - 38
Double-crested Cormorant - 48
Least Bittern - 1
Great Blue Heron - 31
Great Egret - 28
Snowy Egret - 7
Little Blue Heron - 4 (1 adult, 3 immature)
Green Heron - 1 
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 (juvenile) 
Glossy Ibis - 10
Osprey - 13
Bald Eagle - 1 (imm.)
*MERLIN - 1 (female/immature) 
Peregrine Falcon - 1
American Coot - 4
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 3 
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 11
Killdeer - 10
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 17 
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 5
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 8
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 86
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 1538
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 3
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 109
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
unidentified peep sp. - 72
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 1
*STILT SANDPIPER - 12
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 6
Laughing Gull - 117
*FRANKLIN'S GULL - 1 (1st-summer, South Cell w/ imm Laughing Gull) 
Ring-billed Gull - 319
Herring Gull - 26
Great Black-backed Gull - 387
Least Tern - 2
*GULL-BILLED TERN - 1
Caspian Tern - 259
*BLACK TERN - 1 
Forster's Tern - 12
*ROYAL TERN - 1 
large Sterna tern sp. - 1 (flew ahead of Gull-billed Tern)
Mourning Dove - 14
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 
Chimney Swift - 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 14 (few at nectar plants, rest head SW)
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 7
Tree Swallow - 3 
Bank Swallow - 4 
Barn Swallow - 156
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2
Gray Catbird - 6
Northern Mockingbird - 2 
European Starling - 152
Yellow Warbler - 3
Common Yellowthroat - 6
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 17
Swamp Sparrow - 5
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 3 (male, 2 juvenile)
Indigo Bunting - 1 
*BOBOLINK - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 229
House Finch - 12
American Goldfinch - 13
SPECIES: 80
TOTAL BIRDS: 4056

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1 

BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail - 1
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 4
Black Swallowtail - 17
Cabbage White - 32
Orange Sulphur - 22
Cloudless Sulphur - 3
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Eastern Tailed Blue - 14
Summer Azure - 1
Pearl Crescent - 2
Common Buckeye - 2
Monarch - 69 (1 caterpillar) 
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Horace's Duskywing - 1
Common Sootywing - 1
Least Skipper - 2

DRAGONFLIES 
Common Green Darner - 3
Needham's Skimmer - 8
Eastern Pondhawk - 6
Blue Dasher - 1
Black Saddlebags - 8
Halloween Pennant - 1

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 1

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 1
Cont. Lady Beetle - 2
Red Velvet Ant - 1
Large Milkweed Bug - 3


   Kevin Graff
   West Ocean City, MD