Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 02, 2009
0710 - 1445
Weather: AM: Overcast, 62 degrees, NW 7 mph PM: MC, 66 degrees, W 4 mph
         Light rain around 11am till about 1130am 
Observers: John Dennehy, Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 20
Mute Swan - 6
Wood Duck - 3
Gadwall - 8
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 16 (plus 1 Black Duck/Mallard hybrid)
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (drake)
Northern Shoveler - 3
Green-winged Teal - 2 (pair)
Lesser Scaup - 2 (pair)
Bufflehead - 2 (hens)
Red-breasted Merganser - 5 (hens)
Ruddy Duck - 3
Common Loon - 7
Pied-billed Grebe - 76
Double-crested Cormorant - 38
Great Blue Heron - 12
Great Egret - 2
Snowy Egret - 2
Osprey - 10
Northern Harrier - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*SORA - 1
American Coot - 32
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 5
Killdeer - 12
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 7
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 9
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 3
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 52
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 12
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
Peep sp. - 5
*DUNLIN - 131
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 5
Wilson's Snipe - 1
Laughing Gull - 1
Bonaparte's Gull - 21
Ring-billed Gull - 12
Herring Gull - 433
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 2 (1st & 3rd cycle)
Great Black-backed Gull - 144
Caspian Tern - 235
Least Tern - 4
Mourning Dove - 2
Chimney Swift - 4
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 6
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Blue Jay - 106
Fish Crow - 1
Purple Martin - 10
Tree Swallow - 170
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 3
Bank Swallow - 1
Cliff Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 43
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
American Robin - 2
Gray Catbird - 11
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 18
Yellow Warbler - 15
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 11
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 30
Hooded Warbler - 1
Eastern Towhee - 2
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 8
***SALT MARSH SHARP-TAILED SPARROW - 1***
Song Sparrow - 18
Swamp Sparrow - 15
White-throated Sparrow - 4
White-crowned Sparrow - 3 (adults)
Northern Cardinal - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 100
Common Grackle - 4
Brown-headed Cowbird - 21
Orchard Oriole - 4
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 15
SPECIES: 89
INDIVIDUALS: 2009

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 2
Orange Sulphur - 2
American Lady - 1
Lady sp. - 4
Pearl Crescent - 2



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