05/02/11 - 710am-305pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 60-68 degrees, SSE 8K- SE 8K, Gust 14K 
OBSERVERS: Brad Cernohorsky, Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose - 12
Gadwall - 12
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 16
Blue-winged Teal - 2
Northern Shoveler - 15
Green-winged Teal - 15
Lesser Scaup - 9
Ruddy Duck - 256
Common Loon - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 15
Double-crested Cormorant - 42
Great Blue Heron - 9
Great Egret - 5
Snowy Egret - 2
Turkey Vulture - 1 (possible lose battle w/ eagles after flew too close to 
                    the nest, it drop straight down into woods and not 
                    seen again all afternoon)    
Osprey - 10
Bald Eagle - 2
Northern Harrier - 2
Merlin - 1 (caught a swallow)
Peregrine Falcon - 1
American Coot - 152
Black-bellied Plover - 79
Semipalmated Plover - 2
Killdeer - 4
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 5
Spotted Sandpiper - 3
Least Sandpiper - 17
Dunlin - 3
Bonaparte's Gull - 5 (immature)
Ring-billed Gull - 92
Herring Gull - 26
Great Black-backed Gull - 12
Least Tern - 20
Caspian Tern - 315
*BLACK TERN - 1
Mourning Dove - 2
Chimney Swift - 5
Eastern Kingbird - 5
Blue Jay - 1
Fish Crow - 1
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 3
Purple Martin - 6
Tree Swallow - 46
Bank Swallow - 9
Barn Swallow - 52
Carolina Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 3
Gray Catbird - 8
European Starling - 4
Northern Parula - 2
Yellow Warbler - 10
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 16
Common Yellowthroat - 22
Savannah Sparrow - 4
Song Sparrow - 8
Swamp Sparrow - 9
White-throated Sparrow - 2
Northern Cardinal - 4
*BOBOLINK - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 64
Common Grackle - 14
Brown-headed Cowbird - 9
Orchard Oriole - 3
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 14
SPECIES: 67
INDIVIDUALS: 1498

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 3

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 12
Cabbage White - 11
Orange Sulphur - 8
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 2
Pearl Crescent - 17
American Lady - 2
Common Buckeye - 1
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1

MOTHS
White-fringed Emerald - 1

BEETLES
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 55+
Ground Beetle (Pterostichus species)


   Kevin Graff
   Jarrettsville, MD
     

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