Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 03, 2009
0735 - 1505
Weather: Fair/PC, 72-84 degrees, N 6K - calm
Observers: Stan Arnold, Kevin Graff, Brad Lanning, Jeff Shenot, Leslie 
           Starr, Joe Turner  

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 25
Mute Swan - 2
*TUNDRA SWAN - 2
Wood Duck - 17
Gadwall - 4
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 328
Northern Shoveler - 1
Green-winged Teal - 7
Lesser Scaup - 3
Ruddy Duck - 9
Pied-billed Grebe - 43
Double-crested Cormorant - 25
Great Blue Heron - 12
Great Egret - 11
Snowy Egret - 1
Little Blue Heron - 1
Glossy Ibis - 1
Osprey - 16
Bald Eagle - 2 (adults)
Peregrine Falcon - 1
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 251
Killdeer - 26
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 12
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 5
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 13
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 340
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 5
*SANDERLING - 6
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 1955
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 5
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 228
peep sp. - 1700
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 4
*DUNLIN - 1
*STILT SANDPIPER - 25
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 20
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 5 (4 males, 1 female)
Laughing Gull - 35
Bonaparte's Gull - 2 (winter plumage)
Ring-billed Gull - 310
Herring Gull - 39
Great Black-backed Gull - 425
Least Tern - 7
Caspian Tern - 251
Forster's Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 11
*BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO - 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Chimney Swift - 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 5
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Purple Martin - 2
Tree Swallow- 6
Bank Swallow - 20
Barn Swallow - 121
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 1
American Robin - 2
Gray Catbird - 9
European Starling - 142
Cedar Waxwing - 3
Yellow Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 12
Scarlet Tanager - 2
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 17
Swamp Sparrow - 7
Northern Cardinal - 4
Blue Grosbeak - 6
Indigo Bunting - 1
Bobolink - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 214
Common Grackle - 8
Orchard Oriole - 1
House Finch - 5
American Goldfinch - 11

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
Black Swallowtail - 9
Cabbage White - 2
Orange Sulphur - 9
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 2
Pearl Crescent - 2
Monarch - 8
Least Skipper - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 6
Needham's Skimmer - 11
Black Saddlebags - 6
Eastern Amberwing - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 10

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluets - 15
Rambur's Forktail - 3

BEETLES
lack of time


   Kevin Graff
   West Ocean City, MD