04/11/11 - 710am-305pm   
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/Fair, 53-72 degrees, SSE 8K- SSE 11K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Joe Hanfman, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose - 29
Tundra Swan - 1 (adult)
Wood Duck - 1 (hen)
Gadwall - 36
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 20
Blue-winged Teal - 1
Northern Shoveler - 52
Green-winged Teal - 72
Canvasback - 1 (drake)
Ring-necked Duck - 3
Lesser Scaup - 25
Bufflehead - 79
Red-breasted Merganser - 3
Ruddy Duck - 857
Common Loon - 20
Pied-billed Grebe - 16
Horned Grebe - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 338
Great Blue Heron - 10
Great Egret - 5
Snowy Egret - 8
Little Blue Heron - 1 (adult)
Osprey - 8 (4 nests)
Bald Eagle - 3
Northern Harrier - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Virginia Rail - 1 (Joe & Bob, heard in distance)
American Coot - 275
Killdeer - 5
American Avocet - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 3
Least Sandpiper - 1
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1
Dunlin - 26
Wilson's Snipe - 2
Bonaparte's Gull - 602
Ring-billed Gull - 10
Herring Gull - 16
Great Black-backed Gull - 11
Caspian Tern - 180
Forster's Tern - 2 (Bob, one more seen at MES land base afterward)
Mourning Dove - 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 4
PILEATED WOODPECKER - 1 (new island species #288)
                         (Bob, Joe and I had species #287, White-winged 
                         Crossbill last fall)
Fish Crow - 12
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 2
Tree Swallow - 14
Barn Swallow - 15
Carolina Chickadee - 3
Tufted Titmouse - 9
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3
Hermit Thrush - 3
American Robin - 8
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 19
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 11
Swamp Sparrow - 9
White-throated Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 7
Red-winged Blackbird - 92
Common Grackle - 15
Brown-headed Cowbird - 26
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 16
House Sparrow - 1 (female, rare on island)
SPECIES: 78
INDIVIDUALS: 3036 

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 9
Orange Sulphur - 15
Clouded Sulphur - 8
Painted Lady - 2
anglewing sp - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 2
Duskywing sp - 5   

DRAGONFLIES
darner sp - 1

BEETLES
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 200+
American Oil Beetle - 1
Ground Beetle - 1 (unknown type)


   Kevin Graff
   Jarrettsville, MD
   

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