Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 08, 2008
0705 - 1510
Weather: AM: Sunny, 62 degrees, 0 K; PM: Fair, 82 degrees, NNE 4 K
Observers:  Kevin Graff, Joel Martin, Leslie Starr, Joe Turner

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 19
Wood Duck - 32
Gadwall - 4 (2 prs.)
American Wigeon - 3 (1 drake, 2 hens)
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 186
Blue-winged Teal - 33
Northern Shoveler - 38
Northern Pintail - 2 (pair)
Green-winged Teal - 22
Lesser Scaup - 2 (pair)
Ruddy Duck - 6
Pied-billed Grebe - 61
Double-crested Cormorant - 53
Great Blue Heron - 20
Great Egret - 32
Snowy Egret - 11
Little Blue Heron - 1 (imm)
Glossy Ibis - 11
Osprey - 2
Northern Harrier - 2
Merlin - 1
American Coot - 12 (10 ad, 2 imm)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 46
*PIPING PLOVER - 1 (juv., great look through scope!)
*KILLDEER - 22
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 3
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 9
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 53
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 1
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 3
*SANDERLING - 3
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 416
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 2
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 77
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
peep sp - 180
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 3 (2 ad, 1 imm)
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 3
*DUNLIN - 1
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 3
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 11
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1 (imm)
Laughing Gull - 18
Ring-billed Gull - 136
Herring Gull - 20
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (ad)
Great Black-backed Gull - 355
Caspian Tern - 253
Royal Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 13
Chimney Swift - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 4
Purple Martin - 8
Tree Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 14
Carolina Chickadee - 4
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 5
Marsh Wren - 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
Gray Catbird - 6
European Starling - 82
Cedar Waxwing - 13
Yellow Warbler - 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 1
*BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER - 1
*PRAIRIE WARBLER - 2
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 10
Song Sparrow - 8
Northern Cardinal - 5
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (imm male)
Blue Grosbeak - 1
*BOBOLINK - 13
Red-winged Blackbird - 40
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
House Finch - 12
American Goldfinch - 16
SPECIES: 85
TOTAL BIRDS: 2466

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 8
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
Spicebush Swallowtail - 2
Cabbage White - 14
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 19
Cloudless Sulphur - 11
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Red-banded Hairstreak - 2
Eastern Tailed Blue - 6
Summer Azure - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 5
Common Buckeye - 9
Monarch - 56 (55 adults, 1 caterpillar)
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing- 1
Least Skipper - 2
Fiery Skipper - 1
Sachem - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Needham's Skimmer - 2
Eastern Pondhawk - 2
Black Saddlebags - 13
Halloween Pennant - 1
Wandering Glider - 2

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 5
Rambur's Forktail - 2

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth - 1 (Woolly Bear)
Virginian Tiger Moth - 1 (Yellow Bear, dark red-brown)
Milkweed Tussock Moth - 7 (caterpillars)

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Multi-colored Asian Lady Beetle - 2
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle - 1


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD