Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 4, 2009
0705 - 1500
Weather: AM: sunny, 60 degrees, W 10 K; PM: sunny, 71 degrees, W 15 K
gusting to 21 K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla (native bee survey), Marcia Watson

Note that three Pie-billed Grebes were observed sitting on nests, as in
previous weeks.  This is extremely late for nesting behavior in our
area.
Also notable were 422 Lesser Yellowlegs, moving in flocks of about 100
birds each.  

*SPECIES OF NOTES

Canada Goose - 65
Mute Swan - 2
Wood Duck - 5
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 460
Gadwall - 35
American Wigeon - 75
Blue-winged Teal - 5
Northern Shoveler - 15
Green-winged Teal - 400
Lesser Scaup - 2
Ruddy Duck - 6
Pied-billed Grebe - 55
Double-crested Cormorant - 32
Great Blue Heron - 10
Great Egret - 12
Snowy Egret - 5
Little Blue Heron - 2 (white immatures)
Black-Crowned Night Heron - 2 (immature)
Turkey Vulture - 1
Osprey - 2
Bald Eagle - 1 (immature)
Northern Harrier - 2 (juvenile)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 
Cooper's Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 4
Peregrine Falcon - 7 (3 adult, others not aged)
American Coot - 33
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 5
Killdeer - 5
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 6
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 422
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 170
unidentified peep species - 50
Ring-billed Gull - 122
Herring Gull - 173
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (2nd-W)
Great Black-backed Gull - 403
Caspian Tern - 240
Mourning Dove - 56
Northern Flicker - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 4
Blue Jay - 3
Tree Swallow - 20
Carolina Wren - 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 3
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 3
European Starling - 250
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10
Song Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 50
American Goldfinch - 4


BUTTERFLIES (no count of individuals, but Monarchs predominated by far)
Black Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
Cabbage White 
Clouded Sulphur 
Orange Sulphur
Cloudless Sulphur
Pearl Crescent 
Common Buckeye 
Monarch 
Wild Indigo Duskywing

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner 
Black Saddlebags


Marcia
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Marcia Watson
Elkton, MD
Cecil Bird Club