Hi all,



   Left out one Spotted Sandpiper at HMI on 9/13 and our total is 94 species.   


09/20/10 - 650am-705am
Wildwood Beach Rd., Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 64 degrees, N 8 mph

Turkey Vulture - 1 (returned trip)
Mourning Dove - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Blue Jay - 2
American Crow - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 1
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 2
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
*CONNECTICUT WARBLER - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
American Goldfinch - 1
SPECIES: 16
INDIVIDUALS: 18

09/20/10 - 705am-730am
MES Land Base, Riverview Rd., Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 64 degrees, N 9 mph

Wood Duck - 1 (drake, flyby)
Mallard - 9
Double-crested Cormorant - 20
Great Blue Heron - 1
Laughing Gull - 11
Ring-billed Gull - 2
Caspian Tern - 4
Blue Jay - 3
American Crow - 2
Gray Catbird - 1
European Starling - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
American Goldfinch - 1
SPECIES: 14
INDIVIDUALS: 58

09/20/10 - 745am-305pm  **(Anne Arundel Bird Club trip)**
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair/Sunny, 64-77 degrees, N 10 mph- NW 9 mph, Gust 19 mph am
OBSERVERS: Dick Adams, David Gillum, Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler, Debbie Terry
           Marcia Watson, Larry Zoller

Canada Goose - 71
Wood Duck - 3
Gadwall - 50
American Wigeon - 12
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 92
Blue-winged Teal - 18
Northern Shoveler - 45
Northern Pintail - 6
Green-winged Teal - 41
Greater Scaup - 1
Lesser Scaup - 2
Ruddy Duck - 6
Pied-billed Grebe - 30
Double-crested Cormorant - 76
Great Blue Heron - 7
Great Egret - 18
Snowy Egret - 9
Little Blue Heron- 3 (2 adults, 1 immature)
Tricolored Heron - 1
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult, immature)
Northern Harrier - 3
Broad-winged Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 7
Merlin - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 2
American Coot - 1
Black-bellied Plover - 45
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 9
Semipalmated Plover - 43
Killdeer - 2
Greater Yellowlegs - 8
Lesser Yellowlegs - 27
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 95
Western Sandpiper - 5
Least Sandpiper - 36
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 4 (together)
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1
Stilt Sandpiper - 1
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 1
Wilson's Snipe - 1
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1
Laughing Gull - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 40
Herring Gull - 15
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 3 (adults)
Great Black-backed Gull - 196
Caspian Tern - 240
*ROYAL TERN - 2 (Marcia)
Forster's Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 9
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Chimney Swift - 9
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 5
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Eastern KIngbird - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 1
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 70
American Pipit - 1
Northern Parula - 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Pine Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 5 (western)
Savannah Sparrow - 6
Northern Cardinal - 3
Bobolink - 6
Red-winged Blackbird - 18
Brown-headed Cowbird - 15
American Goldfinch - 14 
SPECIES: 76
INDIVIDUALS: 1468

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 20
Cabbage White - 22
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 3 (female white form)
Checkered White - 5
Clouded Sulphur - 9
Little Yellow - 2
Cloudless Sulphur - 5
Gray Hairstreak - 8
Summer Azure - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 15
Variegated Fritillary - 12
Pearl Crescent - 28
Painted Lady - 3
Common Buckeye - 305
Red Admiral - 2
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Monarch - 42
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 3
Checkered Skipper - 1
Fiery Skipper - 2
Least Skipper - 2
Sachem - 4

DRAGONFLIES
Eastern Pondhawk - 2
Black Saddlebags - 25
Needhams's Skimmer - 9

MOTHS
lots of caterpillars, will get id's soon



    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD
    


 Now leaving house to get back to my old hawkwatch by 4pm. This morning was very good.