06/27/11 –  710am-305pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 71-80 degrees, calm- NNW 6K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 48
Wood Duck – 16 (hen w/ 7 ducklings)
American Black Duck – 8
Mallard – 68
Lesser Scaup – 1 (drake)
Ruddy Duck – 11
Pied-billed Grebe – 24 (9 on nests)
Double-crested Cormorant – 42
Least Bittern – 3
Great Blue Heron – 9
Great Egret – 3
Snowy Egret – 2
Little Blue Heron – 1 (calico)
Glossy Ibis – 1
Osprey – 16  (1 nest has 2 fledged, 2nd has 2, 3rd has 1, 4th has 1,
5th either has eggs or failed nest)
Bald Eagle – 3 (2 adult, 1 immature)
Peregrine Falcon – 4 (2 adult, 2 fledged)
Virginia Rail – 1
American Coot – 1
Semipalmated Plover – 1
Killdeer – 9
Spotted Sandpiper – 1
White-rumped Sandpiper – 2
Laughing Gull – 7
Bonaparte’s Gull – 1 (1st year)
Ring-billed Gull – 132
Herring Gull – 14
Lesser Black-backed Gull – 1 (2nd summer)
Great Black-backed Gull – 10
Least Tern – 1
Caspian Tern – 114
Common Tern – 2
Mourning Dove – 5
Black-billed Cuckoo – 1
Downy Woodpecker – 1
Great Crested Flycatcher – 2
Eastern Kingbird – 9 (2 fledged)
Tree Swallow – 12
Bank Swallow – 1
Barn Swallow – 64
Carolina Chickadee – 1
Carolina Wren – 2
Marsh Wren – 9
Gray Catbird – 16
European Starling – 22
Cedar Waxwing – 4
Yellow Warbler – 6
Common Yellowthroat – 32
Yellow-breasted Chat – 1
Song Sparrow – 9
Swamp Sparrow – 3
Northern Cardinal – 2
Blue Grosbeak – 5
Indigo Bunting – 2
Red-winged Blackbird – 72
Common Grackle – 14
Brown-headed Cowbird – 4
Orchard Oriole – 11
American Goldfinch - 16
SPECIES: 59
INDIVIDUALS: 883

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 1

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler’s Toad – 1

BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail - 1
Black Swallowtail – 24
Spicebush Swallowtail – 1
Cabbage White – 22
Clouded/Orange Sulphur – 4 (female white form)
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur – 99
Gray Hairstreak – 9
Summer Azure – 2
Eastern Tailed Blue – 22
Variegated Fritillary – 5
Pearl Crescent – 6
Common Buckeye – 27
Monarch – 16
Silver-spotted Skipper – 5
Wild Indigo Duskywing – 24
Common Sootywing - 3

DRAGONFLIES
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 4
Needham’s Skimmer – 55
Eastern Pondhawk - 7
Black Saddlebags - 2
Four-spotted Pennant - 1

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet – 5+

MOTHS
White Flannel Moth – 1
Io Moth – 1
Virgin Tiger Moth – 3 (Yellow Bear)
Milkweed Tussock Moth – 300+ (caterpillars)

TRUE BUGS (also several invasive stink bug that we get in house)
Large Milkweed Bug – 15
Small Milkweed Bug – 5

BEETLES
Japanese Beetle – 3
Green June Beetle - 2
Soldier Beetle – 4 (eastern species)
Argus Tortoise Beetle - 1


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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