Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 24, 2010
0705 - 1505
Weather: Drizzle/PC, 65-75 degrees, SE 2K- ESE 3K, Gust to 12
Observers: Barbara Gearhart, Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler, Mike Welch


*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 63 (several goslings)
Mute Swan - 3
Wood Duck - 43 (few ducklings)
Gadwall - 4
American Wigeon - 1 (drake)
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 87 (quite a few ducklings)
Blue-winged Teal - 1
Green-winged Teal - 3 (2 drakes, 1 hen)
Greater Scaup - 1
Lesser Scaup - 8
Ruddy Duck - 51
Common Loon - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 38
Double-crested Cormorant - 19
*LEAST BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 11
Great Egret - 4
Snowy Egret - 6
Glossy Ibis - 1
Osprey - 8
Peregrine Falcon - 1
American Coot - 3
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 249 (248 arrive in pm)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 14
Killdeer - 10
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 16
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 5
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 5
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 385
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 3
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 4
*DUNLIN - 37
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 4
*LAUGHING GULL - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 42
Herring Gull - 15
Great Black-backed Gull - 7
Least Tern - 15
Caspian Tern - 245
Forster's Tern - 2
Mourning Dove - 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Chimney Swift - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 8
Fish Crow - 1
Purple Martin - 4
Tree Swallow - 49
Bank Swallow - 10
Barn Swallow - 52
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Marsh Wren - 3
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 6
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 4
Cedar Waxwing - 11
Yellow Warbler - 8
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 30
Song Sparrow - 6
Swamp Sparrow - 5
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 85
Common Grackle - 5
Brown-headed Cowbird - 15
Orchard Oriole - 8
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 14
SPECIES: 74
INDIVIDUALS: 1774

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

REPTILES
Northern Water Snake - 1
Snapping Turtle - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 20
Orange Sulphur - 1
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Red Admiral - 1
Monarch - 1
Least Skipper - 1


05/17/10 - 315pm-330pm 
MES Landbase, Riverview Rd., Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC, 75 degrees, E 4 mph

Mallard - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Turkey Vulture - 1
Herring Gull - 2
Caspian Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1
Barn Swallow - 2
American Robin - 2
European Starling - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 2
Common Grackle - 2
House Finch - 1
SPECIES: 16
INDIVIDUALS: 21


   Kevin Graff
   Jarrettsville, MD