07/18/11 - 710am-305pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC/Fair, 74-88 degrees, SSW 5K- SE 10K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler, Leslie Starr, Joe Turner

Canada Goose - 14
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 53
Ruddy Duck - 12
Pied-billed Grebe - 28
Double-crested Cormorant - 66
Least Bittern - 2
Great Blue Heron - 10
Great Egret - 1
Snowy Egret - 8
Glossy Ibis - 1
Osprey - 15 (7 fledged: 2 in one nest, 2 in 2nd, 1 in third and 2 in
fourth, 5th nest was vacant since early July)
Peregrine Falcon - 3 (on returned trip to dock, flew to back of lighthouse)
Semipalmated Plover - 3
Killdeer - 8
American Avocet - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 9
Spotted Sandpiper - 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 15
Western Sandpiper - 10
Least Sandpiper - 151
Pectoral Sandpiper - 2
Stilt Sandpiper - 12
Short-billed Dowitcher - 2 (prairie race)
Laughing Gull - 16
Ring-billed Gull - 143 (some first juveniles of the season)
Herring Gull - 9
Great Black-backed Gull - 24
Least Tern - 4
Caspian Tern - 187
Forster's Tern - 5 (2 juveniles)
Mourning Dove - 4
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 5 (1 FL fed by parent near beach)
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 11
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Purple Martin - 68
Tree Swallow - 11
Bank Swallow - 17
Barn Swallow - 55
Marsh Wren - 5
American Robin- 3
Gray Catbird - 16
European Starling - 98
Cedar Waxwing - 6
Common Yellowthroat - 29
Song Sparrow - 9
Swamp Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Indigo Bunting - 3
Bobolink - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 58
Common Grackle - 4
Brown-headed Cowbird - 4
Orchard Oriole - 6
House Finch - 9
American Goldfinch - 14
SPECIES: 61
INDIVIDUALS: 1277

REPTILES
Eastern Box Turtle - 1
Eastern Painted Turtle - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 8
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 1
Checkered White - 2
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 46
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Pearl Crescent - 1
Common Buckeye - 6
Monarch - 4
Silver-spotted Skipper - 3
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1
Common Sootywing - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 3
Common Whitetail - 1
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 2
Needham's Skimmer - 190+
Blue Dasher - 2
Eastern Pondhawk - 2
Black Saddlebags - 1
Four-spotted Pennant - 1
Halloween Pennant - 1
Calico Pennant - 1

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 5+


Earlier this am, we had a Wild Turkey across the entrance drive to MES
Land Base.


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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