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Hart-Miller Island, 09/07/09

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Tue, 8 Sep 2009 12:57:41 -0700

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 07, 2009
0705 - 1455
Weather: Overcast/MC, 66-75 degrees, ENE 9K- NNE 10K
Observers: Kevin Graff, Gene Scarpulla (native bee survey), Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTES

Canada Goose - 70
Mute Swan - 1
Wood Duck - 12
Gadwall - 2
American Wigeon - 6
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 225
Blue-winged Teal - 4
Northern Shoveler - 51
Green-winged Teal - 84
Greater Scaup - 1
Lesser Scaup - 2
Ruddy Duck - 7
Pied-billed Grebe - 65 (several late fledged begging)
Double-crested Cormorant - 93
*LEAST BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 17
Great Egret - 30
Snowy Egret - 11
Little Blue Heron - 5
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1
Osprey - 4
Bald Eagle - 1
Northern Harrier - 2
Merlin - 2
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 19
Killdeer - 69
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 7
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 46
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 123
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 219
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 2
*STILT SANDPIPER - 8
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 3
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 3
Laughing Gull - 11
Ring-billed Gull - 135
Herring Gull - 78
Great Black-backed Gull - 668
Caspian Tern - 231
Forster's Tern - 1
*BLACK TERN - 1
Mourning Dove - 27
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Purple Martin - 4
Tree Swallow - 20
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 27
Bank Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 35
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
Gray Catbird - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 210
*TENNESSEE WARBLER - 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 5
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Song Sparrow - 4
Northern Cardinal - 2
Bobolink - 6
Red-winged Blackbird - 96
Common Grackle - 2
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 17
SPECIES: 74
INDIVIDUALS: 2820

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 4
Cabbage White - 8
Clouded Sulphur - 2
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 13
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Summer Azure - 2
Variegated Fritillary - 3
Pearl Crescent - 10
Painted Lady - 1
unidentified lady sp. - 2
Common Buckeye - 5
Monarch - 65 (including 2 caterpillars)
Horace's Duskywing - 2
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1
Sachem - 3

MOTHS
Chickweed Geometer - 50
Isabella Tiger Moth - 1 (Woolly Bear)
Salt Marsh Moth - 5 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Milkweed Tussock Moth - 300+ (caterpillars)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 6

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Black Saddlebags - 8

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 6
unidentified forktail sp. - 450+ (red immatures)

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Large Milkweed Bug - 31 (including 15 larvae)
Small Milkweed Bug - 4
Harlequin Bug - 2
Bronzed Tiger Beetles - 60
Convergent Lady Beetle - 1
Multicolored Asian Beetle - 2



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