Observations at Hart-Miller Island
June 07, 2010
0705 - 1500
Weather: PC, 63-75 degrees, NNW 10K- NW 8K
Observer: Kevin Graff


Canada Goose - 154
Mute Swan - 32
Wood Duck - 44
Gadwall - 2
American Wigeon - 1 (drake)
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 80
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (drake)
Green-winged Teal - 2 (pair)
Lesser Scaup - 6
Ruddy Duck - 26
Pied-billed Grebe - 36 (14 nests visible)
Double-crested Cormorant - 16
Great Blue Heron - 11
Great Egret - 2
Snowy Egret - 1
Glossy Ibis - 3
Turkey Vulture - 1
Osprey - 10
Bald Eagle - 1 (immature)
American Coot - 1
Semipalmated Plover - 9
Killdeer - 8
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 2 (nest w/ 4 eggs, pond north of cross dike, in 
                         danger of being drained and dirt filled by 
                         dump trucks)
Spotted Sandpiper - 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 420
White-rumped Sandpiper - 2
Dunlin - 16
Ring-billed Gull - 43
Herring Gull - 59
Great Black-backed Gull - 86
Least Tern - 16
*BLACK TERN - 1 (w/ Least Terns on 3rd trip to cross dike)
Caspian Tern - 258
Mourning Dove - 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 
Eastern Kingbird - 6
Fish Crow - 1
Purple Martin - 3
Tree Swallow - 20
Bank Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 15
Marsh Wren - 3 (flight display seen)
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 6
European Starling - 2
Cedar Waxwing - 2
Yellow Warbler - 6
Common Yellowthroat - 23
Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 (singing on territory near boat ramp)
Song Sparrow - 8
Swamp Sparrow - 4
Northern Cardinal - 6
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 62
Common Grackle - 9
Brown-headed Cowbird - 8
Orchard Oriole - 6
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 12
SPECIES: 62
INDIVIDUALS: 1590

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 6

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 20
Orange Sulphur - 17
Clouded Sulphur - 8
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 4 (female white form, some carried by males)
Common Buckeye - 2
Summer Azure - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Monarch - 2
Silver-spotted Skipper - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 6
Eastern Pondhawk - 9
Needham's Skimmer - 10
Blue Dasher - 2
Black Saddlebags - 15
Wandering Glider - 1


06/07/10 - 620am-645am
MES Landbase, Riverview Rd., Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC, 63 degrees, NNW 4 mph

Mallard - 2
Double-crested Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Great Egret - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 1
Herring Gull - 1
Caspian Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 1
Barn Swallow - 2
American Robin - 2
European Starling - 2
Northern Cardinal - 1
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 2
Common Grackle - 2
Baltimore Oriole - 1
House Finch - 1
SPECIES: 18
INDIVIDUALS: 25


   Kevin Graff
   Jarrettsville, MD