08/23/10 - 710am-305pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair/MC, 72-81 degrees, NW 4K- NW 6K
OBSERVERS: Brad Cernohorsky, Kevin Graff, Joe Hanfman

Canada Goose - 125
Wood Duck - 16
American Wigeon - 2
American Black Duck - 6
Mallard - 88
Blue-winged Teal- 45
Northern Shoveler - 4
Green-winged Teal - 16
Ruddy Duck - 6
Pied-billed Grebe - 60 (2 active nests)
Double-crested Cormorant - 53
Great Blue Heron - 12
Great Egret - 10
Snowy Egret - 16
Tricolored Heron - 1
Glossy Ibis - 3
Osprey - 4
Bald Eagle - 3
Northern Harrier - 1 (immature)
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Black-bellied Plover - 5
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 1
Semipalmated Plover - 14
Killdeer - 1
Spotted Sandpiper - 2
Greater Yellowlegs - 5
*WILLET - 1 (western)
Lesser Yellowlegs - 22
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 285
Least Sandpiper - 3
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1
Dunlin - 1
Stilt Sandpiper - 2
Short-billed Dowitcher - 3
Laughing Gull - 75
Ring-billed Gull - 11
Herring Gull - 4
Great Black-backed Gull - 16
Caspian Tern - 248
Forster's Tern - 22
Mourning Dove - 6
Chimney Swift - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Blue Jay - 1
Tree Swallow - 8
Bank Swallow - 14
Cliff Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 41
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 65
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Song Sparrow - 2 
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Bobolink - 13
Red-winged Blackbird - 48
Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 16
SPECIES: 64
INDIVIDUALS: 1430 

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 15
Cabbage White - 6
Checkered White - 1
Orange Sulphur - 19
Clouded Sulphur - 6
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 3 (female white form)
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 8
Summer Azure - 1
Variegated Fritillery - 1
Pearl Crescent - 8
Common Buckeye - 32
Monarch - 35
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Horace's SKipper - 2
Least Skipper - 2

DRAGONFLIES
lack of time due to bug bites

**we were unable to get to the trail in the woods for passerines due to swarm of Mosquitoes, same for the path to south cell. We made it on first trip scanning for shorebird and tern flocks and soon ran back to main road. 2nd trip we avoid it for the first time this year. Never had problem walking this year till now. It got so bad, we been giving blood to those bad-a** bugs all day. 


   Kevin Graff
   Jarrettsville, MD