06/20/11 – 710am-305pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 68-75 degrees, E 7K- SE 9K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 36
Wood Duck – 10
Gadwall – 2
American Black Duck – 6
Mallard – 56
Blue-winged Teal – 2 (pair)
Lesser Scaup – 2 (drakes)
Bufflehead – 1 (drake)
Ruddy Duck – 8
Pied-billed Grebe – 22
Double-crested Cormorant – 14
Great Blue Heron – 10
Great Egret – 2
Snowy Egret – 5
Green Heron – 1
Glossy Ibis – 2
Osprey – 10
Northern Harrier – 1
Peregrine Falcon – 3 (2 adults, 1 young at lighthouse)
American Coot – 2
Semipalmated Plover – 2
Killdeer – 9
Spotted Sandpiper – 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper – 2
Laughing Gull – 2
Ring-billed Gull – 66
Herring Gull – 18
Great Black-backed Gull – 11
Least Tern - 1
Caspian Tern – 74
Common Tern – 2
Mourning Dove – 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo – 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird – 1
Great Crested Flycatcher – 1
Eastern Kingbird – 8
Red-eyed Vireo – 1
Tree Swallow – 31
Barn Swallow – 19
Carolina Wren – 1
Marsh Wren – 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1
Gray Catbird – 14
Northern Mockingbird – 2 (on each end of island)
European Starling – 116
Cedar Waxwing – 3
Yellow Warbler – 7
Common Yellowthroat – 18
Yellow-breasted Chat – 1
Song Sparrow – 10
Swamp Sparrow – 5
Northern Cardinal – 3
Blue Grosbeak – 2
Indigo Bunting – 1
Red-winged Blackbird – 48
Common Grackle – 9
Brown-headed Cowbird – 3
Orchard Oriole – 6
House Finch – 3
American Goldfinch - 15
SPECIES: 60
INDIVIDUALS: 720

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail – 2
Spicebush Swallowtail – 6
Cabbage White – 5
Orange Sulphur – 39
Clouded/Orange Sulphur – 1 (female white form)
Checkered White - 1
Gray Hairstreak – 2
Eastern Tailed Blue – 13
Summer Azure – 2
Pearl Crescent – 10
Common Buckeye – 12
Viceroy – 1
Monarch – 12
Silver-spotted Skipper – 4
Common Sootywing – 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 10

DRAGONFLIES
Needham’s Skimmer – 35
Blue Dasher – 1

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet – 10
Rambur’s Forktail – 1

MOTHS
Milkweed Tussock Moth – 100+ (caterpillar)
Virginian Tiger Moth – 2 (Yellow Bear)
Smeared Dagger Moth – 3 (Smartweed Caterpillar)

BEETLES
Soldier Beetle - 6


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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