05/23/11 - 710am-305pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 65-77 degrees, E 5K- SE 12K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Margaret Liubaricius (from Toronto), Bob Ringler

Canada Goose - 19
Gadwall - 5
American Wigeon - 2
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 32
Lesser Scaup- 6
Bufflehead - 1 (hen)
Red-breasted Merganser - 2 (hens)
Ruddy Duck - 80
Common Loon - 1 (headed NNE)
Pied-billed Grebe - 12 (one on nest)
Double-crested Cormorant - 21
Least Bittern - 1
Great Blue Heron - 7
Great Egret - 6
Snowy Egret - 2
Green Heron - 2
Osprey - 12 (5 nests occupied, 6th pair nest not seen)
Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adults, 2 1st year)
Peregrine Falcon - 2
American Coot - 12
Black-bellied Plover - 1
Semipalmated Plover - 5
Killdeer - 9 
Black-necked Stilt - 2
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 2
Spotted Sandpiper - 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 175
Least Sandpiper - 11
White-rumped Sandpiper - 1
Dunlin - 26
Ring-billed Gull - 8
Herring Gull - 3
Great Black-backed Gull - 6
Least Tern - 28
Caspian Tern - 22
Forster's Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 6
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 18
Bank Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 28
Carolina Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 4
Gray Catbird - 8
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 9
Cedar Waxwing - 39
Yellow Warbler - 10
Blackpoll Warbler - 3
American Redstart - 3
Common Yellowthroat - 34
Song Sparrow - 14
Swamp Sparrow - 4
Northern Cardinal- 2
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 42
Common Grackle - 8
Brown-headed Cowbird - 13
Orchard Oriole - 6
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 10
SPECIES: 68
INDIVIDUALS: 814

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 8 (4 kits in one hole and 3 others at other hole, adult nearby)

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 12
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 15
Orange Sulphur - 26
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 2
Spring Azure - 1
fritillary sp - 1
Pearl Crescent - 5
Question Mark - 1
Comma - 1
Mourning Cloak - 1
Common Buckeye - 3
Monarch - 5
Silver-spotted Skipper - 4
Common Sootywing - 15
Sachem - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Needham's Skimmer - 1
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 2

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 25
Violent Dancer - 2

MOTHS
White Flannel Moth - 1
Eastern Tent Caterpillar - 10+

TRUE BUGS
Large Milkweed Bug - 5

BEETLES
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 15+
Soldier Beetle - 10 (eastern species)
Multi-colored Asian Lady Beetle - 2 (mature larva)
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle - 3
Argus Tortoise Beetle - 2



    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD
    

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