Hi all,


08/30/08 - 735am-1030am & 1140am-125pm
Rt. 261 Marsh & boardwalk, Bay Ave., North Beach, Calvert Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast, 73 degrees, NNW 6 mph- NNW 5 mph (am)
         Overcast/PC, 73-77 degrees, NW 4 mph- SE 9 mph (pm) 
OBSERVERS: 15

Canada Goose - 52
Wood Duck - 2
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 32
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (hen)
Double-crested Cormorant - 21
Great Blue Heron - 5
Great Egret - 11
Snowy Egret - 31
Green Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 3
Osprey - 3
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 1
Semipalmated Plover - 1
Killdeer - 11
AMERICAN AVOCET - 2 (one headed S from AACo over bay, 2nd at marsh)
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 2
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 13 
Western Sandpiper - 1
Least Sandpiper - 70
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 (brief view)
Short-billed Dowitcher - 2 (seen on/off)
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 1
Laughing Gull - 48
Ring-billed Gull - 51
Herring Gull - 49
Great Black-backed Gull - 646
Caspian Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 13
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 4
Chimney Swift - 11
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
American Crow - 2 (also 6 more crow not heard???)
Purple Martin - 4
Barn Swallow - 3
American Robin - 1
European Starling - 17
Song Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 5
American Goldfinch - 3
House Sparrow - 9
SPECIES: 48
TOTAL BIRDS: 1147

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
Monarch - 2
Cabbage White - 3

08/30/08 - 1035am-1135am
Herrington Harbour, Walnut Ave., Friendship, Anne Arundel Co., MD

WEATHER: Haze, 73 degrees, NNW 5 mph- NW 4 mph
OBSERVERS: 2

Canada Goose - 6 (pond north of there)
Great Blue Heron - 2
Snowy Egret - 1
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night Heron - 3 (immatures)
Osprey - 2
Cooper's Hawk - 1 (north of harbour)
Laughing Gull - 29
Ring-billed Gull - 32
Herring Gull - 8
Great Black-backed Gull - 9
Caspian Tern - 10
Royal Tern - 13
Common Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 5
Rock Pigeon - 2
Mourning Dove - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 (up the road earlier am)
Blue Jay - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 1 (up the road)
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Song Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 1
Common Grackle - 1
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 1
SPECIES: 29
TOTAL BIRDS: 144

BUTTERFLIES (grasses area near garden at south side of marina)
Cabbage White - 8
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Monarch - 1
Least Skipper - 2
Fiery Skipper - 7
Tawny-edged Skipper - 1
Peck's Skipper - 1
Sachem - 7
Southern Broken Dash - 1 
Zabulon Skipper - 3
**still a quite few more skippers all over the garden area before walking 
  out to the pier on south side near the marina behind the Herrington  
  Harbour Inn)


      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD