Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 24, 2009
0710 - 1510
Weather: MC/Fair, 68-85 degrees, NW 5K- NNW 4K
Observers: Barbara Gearhart, Kevin Graff, Jeff Shenot, Nico Sarbanes, 
           Mike Welch

*Note: the water level just about gone at North Cell and the MES crew plan to dry it out to add more dredged materials there. Won't look good till around mid-Sept or later. 

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 68
Mute Swan - 1
Wood Duck - 28
Gadwall - 2
American Black Duck - 30
Mallard - 261
Blue-winged Teal - 3
Northern Shoveler - 6
Green-winged Teal - 16
Greater Scaup - 2
Lesser Scaup - 3
Ruddy Duck - 6
Pied-billed Grebe - 38
Double-crested Cormorant - 64
Great Blue Heron - 31
Great Egret - 22
Snowy Egret - 12
Little Blue Heron - 6 (2 calico)
*TRICOLORED HERON - 1
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1
Glossy Ibis - 2
Osprey - 10
Bald Eagle - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 4
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 53
Killdeer - 17
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 8
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 10
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 45
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 3
*WILLET - 1 (western)
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 3
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 2
*RED KNOT - 1
*SANDERLING - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 238
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 7
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 56
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 3
*STILT SANDPIPER - 11
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 2
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 4
Laughing Gull - 16
Ring-billed Gull - 236
Herring Gull - 29
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 (adult)
Great Black-backed Gull - 570
Least Tern - 1
Caspian Tern - 438
Forster's Tern - 1
*ROYAL TERN - 1
Mourning Dove - 14
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Chimney Swift - 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 1
Purple Martin - 34
Tree Swallow - 480 (resting on perch in marshes)
Bank Swallow - 52
Cliff Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 104
Carolina Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 9
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 82
Cedar Waxwing - 3
Yellow Warbler - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 3
Song Sparrow - 11
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Bobolink - 8
Red-winged Blackbird - 235
Common Grackle - 3
House Finch - 5
American Goldfinch - 15
SPECIES: 81
TOTAL BIRDS: 3458

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3
Black Swallowtail - 28
Cabbage White - 11
Orange Sulphur - 30
Sleepy Orange - 1
Pearl Crescent - 4
Common Buckeye - 4
Red Admiral - 1
American Snout - 1
Viceroy - 4
Monarch - 43
Silver-spotted Skipper - 3
Least Skipper - 1
Broad-winged Skipper - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 4
Common Whitetail - 1
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 3
Needham's Skimmer - 15
Eastern Amberwing - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 22
Black Saddlebags - 28
Carolina Saddlebags - 1
Halloween Pennant - 2

DAMSELFLIES (many more)
Familiar Bluets - 20+
Rambur's Forktail - 4+

MOTHS (Gene Scarpulla while doing bee survey)
Snowberry Clearwing - 1

BEETLES (Gene Scarpulla while doing bee survey)
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 150
Punctured Tiger Beetle - 5



    Kevin Graff
    West Ocean City, MD