Observations at Hart-Miller Island   
September 13, 2010
710am-305pm
Weather: Overcast/Fair, 61-79 degrees, calm- S 8 mph
Observers: Sandra Farkas, Diane Ford, Kevin Graff, Bob Klarquist, Leslie 
           Starr, Joe Turner

Canada Goose - 14
Wood Duck - 9
Gadwall - 4
American Wigeon - 12
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 81
Blue-winged Teal - 62
Northern Shoveler - 62
Green-winged Teal - 18
Greater Scaup - 1 (drake)
Lesser Scaup - 2 (pair)
Ruddy Duck - 6
Pied-billed Grebe - 60
Double-crested Cormorant - 27
Great Blue Heron - 7
Great Egret - 19
Snowy Egret - 18
LITTLE BLUE HERON - 1 (adult)
TRICOLORED HERON - 2
Cattle Egret - 1
Osprey - 4
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 2 (immature male, immature female)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1 
American Coot - 1
Black-bellied Plover - 16
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 4
Semipalmated Plover - 20
Killdeer - 9
AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 4
Lesser Yellowlegs - 28
RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
SANDERING - 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 12
Least Sandpiper - 87
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1 (juvenile)
Pectoral Sabdpiper - 1
Wilson's Snipe - 1
Laughing Gull - 7
Ring-billed Gull - 25
Herring Gull - 10
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 4 (all adults)
Great Black-backed Gull - 105
Caspian Tern - 151
COMMON TERN - 3
Forster's Tern - 6
SANDWICH TERN - 1 (winter adult, crest winter plumage shown, long thin 
                   black bill, faded color on tip, bigger than Forster 
                   next to it. My second one on island.  Sketch by Diane 
                   Ford, seen by Diane Ford, Sandra Farkas and myself.
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 20
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Chimney Swift - 12
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Acadian Flycatcher - 1
Least Flycatcher - 1
White-eyed Vireo - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 65
Bank Swallow - 2
Cliff Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 3
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 5
European Starling - 95
Northern Parula - 6
Yellow Warbler - 3
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 5 (western)
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 1
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 10
Scarlet Tanager - 2
Chipping Sparrow - 1
SALTMARSH SPARROW - 1
Song Sparrow - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Bobolink - 15
Red-winged Blackbird - 85
Common Grackle - 1
Brown-headed Cowbird - 15
American Goldfinch - 21
SPECIES: 93
INDIVIDUALS: 1316

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 6
Cabbage White - 3
Orange Sulphur - 16
Clouded Sulphur - 7
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 4 (female white form)
Little Yellow - 2
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 7
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 13
Common Buckeye - 210
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Monarch - 170
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Least Skipper - 2
Fiery Skipper - 1
Sachem - 4

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 10
Needham's Skimmer - 12
Black Saddlebags - 55


08/02/10 - 640am-655am (earlier)
MES Landbase, Riverview Rd., Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast, 61 degrees, calm

Mallard - 12
Double-crested Cormorant - 3
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1
Osprey - 1
Laughing Gull - 10
Ring-billed Gull - 12
Herring Gull - 1
Caspian Tern - 3
Mourning Dove - 1
Chimney Swift - 1 (returned trip)
American Robin - 1
European Starling - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
House Finch - 1
SPECIES: 14
INDIVIDUALS: 49

08/02/10 - 430pm-6pm
Backyard HawkWatch, White Ave., Gardenville section of Baltimore, MD

WEATHER: PC, 80 degrees, WNW 9 mph
OBSERVER: Kevin Graff

Turkey Vulture - 15
Osprey - 3
Northern Harrier - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 5
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Broad-winged Hawk - 254
American Kestrel - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Rock Pigeon - 1
Chimney Swift - 112 (kettles, headed SW)
Northern Flicker - 1 (high flying headed SW)
Tree Swallow - 2 (headed SW)
European Starling - 1
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 1
SPECIES: 15
INDIVIDUALS: 403


Raptors 

  1  Black Vulture
 34  Turkey Vulture
 12  Osprey
  3  Bald Eagle
  3  Northern Harrier
 10  Sharp-shinned Hawk
  2  Cooper's Hawk
295  Broad-winged Hawk
  1  Red-tailed Hawk
  8  American Kestrel
  1  Peregrine Falcon
370

Non-raptors 

  3  Blue-winged Teal
  1  Great Blue Heron
 13  Ring-billed Gull
211  Chimney Swift
  1  Northern Flicker 
  1  Eastern Wood-Pewee
  2  Blue Jay
  1  N. Rough-winged Swallow
  2  Purple Martin
  7  Tree Swallow
 12  Barn Swallow
  3  Cedar Waxwing
257


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD