Observations at Hart-Miller Island
June 20, 2009
0700 - 1450
Weather: Overcast/MC, 68-79 degrees, ESE 5 K- SSW 8 K (rain on/off all 
         morning till about 1, 69 degrees, ENE 10 K at noon)
Observers: Stan Arnold, Kevin Graff, John Hubbell, Bob Ringler   

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 185
Mute Swan - 45
*TUNDRA SWAN - 2
Wood Duck - 9
Gadwall - 1
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 384
Northern Pintail - 2
Green-winged Teal - 3
Greater Scaup - 4 (2 pairs)
Lesser Scaup - 4 
Ruddy Duck - 9
Pied-billed Grebe - 47
Double-crested Cormorant - 51
Great Blue Heron - 15
Great Egret - 6
Snowy Egret - 6
*TRICOLORED HERON - 1 (adult)
Green Heron - 1
Glossy Ibis - 17
Osprey - 8
Bald Eagle - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
*COMMON MOORHEN - 1
American Coot - 1
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 4
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 13
Killdeer - 19
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 9 (1 on nest North Cell)
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 7
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*WILLET - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 55
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 8
*DUNLIN - 4
Laughing Gull - 45
Ring-billed Gull - 180
Herring Gull - 59
Great Black-backed Gull - 246
Least Tern - 30
Caspian Tern - 130
Forster's Tern - 4
Mourning Dove - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Purple Martin - 22 (back at purple martin houses)
Tree Swallow - 23
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 2 (possible at nest site, entrance hole found)
Barn Swallow - 43
Marsh Wren - 5
Gray Catbird - 8
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 26
Cedar Waxwing - 3
Yellow Warbler - 7
Common Yellowthroat - 15
Song Sparrow - 12
Swamp Sparrow - 6
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 119
Common Grackle - 45 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 10
Orchard Oriole - 2
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 13

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

REPTILES
Spotted Turtle - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 21
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 18
Summer Azure - 5
Pearl Crescent - 2
Monarch - 4
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 3
Eastern Pondhawk - 2
Needham's Skimmer - 1
Blue Dasher - 1
Black Saddlebags - 6
Wandering Glider - 4

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 6
Rambur's Forktail - 13

MOTHS
Salt Marsh - 2 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)

BEETLES
Margined Leatherback - 43
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 7
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle - 1



   Kevin Graff
   West Ocean City, MD