Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 31, 2009
0710 - 1510
Weather: Overcast/PC, 62-73 degrees, NNW 7K- NNE 8K
Observers: Jim Brighton, Kevin Graff, Hans Holbrook, Brad Lanning
Sorry for the delay, had to wait for bugs result FROM OTHERS but found out that Hans was away all week.
*SPECIES OF NOTE
Canada Goose - 82
Mute Swan - 1
Wood Duck - 18
Gadwall - 4
American Wigeon - 1
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 126
Blue-winged Teal - 3
Green-winged Teal - 45
Greater Scaup - 2
Lesser Scaup - 2
Ruddy Duck - 6
Pied-billed Grebe - 33 (one juv. begging for food, other on nest)
Double-crested Cormorant - 38
Great Blue Heron - 12
Great Egret - 46
Snowy Egret - 11
Little Blue Heron - 2
TRICOLORED HERON - 1 (adult)
Osprey - 5
Bald Eagle - 2
Northern Harrier - 1 (imm female)
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Merlin - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 2
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 2
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 8
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 50
Killdeer - 14
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 7
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 52
*WILLET - 1 (western)
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 960
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 2
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 9
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*BAIRD's SANDPIPER - 2
*DUNLIN - 2
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 2
Laughing Gull - 16
Ring-billed Gull - 142
Herring Gull - 19
Great Black-backed Gull - 726
Caspian Tern - 192
*BLACK TERN - 1
Rock Pigeon - 3
Mourning Dove - 12
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Purple Martin - 7
Tree Swallow - 13
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 9
Bank Swallow - 6
Barn Swallow - 135
Carolina Wren - 1
House Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 3
European Starling - 61
Cedar Waxwing - 7
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 8
Eastern Towhee - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 11
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 3
Indigo Bunting - 1
Bobolink - 83
Red-winged Blackbird - 185
Common Grackle - 1
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 42
SPECIES: 77
TOTAL INDIVIDUALS: 3271
MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2
AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 2
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
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