08/18/11 – 710am-3pm
Hart-Millet Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/Fair, 75-85 degrees, S 5K- SE 8K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler, Mark Schilling

Canada Goose – 76
Wood Duck – 1
American Black Duck – 3
Mallard – 42
Green-winged Teal – 8
Ruddy Duck – 5
Pied-billed Grebe – 26 (13 nests active)
Double-crested Cormorant – 88
Great Blue Heron – 6
Great Egret – 7
Snowy Egret – 23
Osprey – 16
Black-bellied Plover – 2
Semipalmated Plover – 11
Killdeer – 7
Greater Yellowlegs – 3
Lesser Yellowlegs – 19
Willet – 1 (western)
Spotted Sandpiper – 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper – 13
Least Sandpiper – 5
Short-billed Dowitcher – 2 (atlantic)
Laughing Gull – 22
Ring-billed Gull – 86
Herring Gull – 10
Lesser Black-backed Gull – 1 (3rd summer)
Great Black-backed Gull – 126
Least Tern – 3
Caspian Tern – 425
Black Tern – 1
Common Tern – 1
Forster’s Tern – 32
Royal Tern – 1
Mourning Dove – 12
Ruby-throated Hummingbird – 5
Downy Woodpecker – 1
Northern Flicker – 1
Eastern Kingbird – 18
Purple Martin – 215
Tree Swallow – 27
Bank Swallow – 19
Barn Swallow – 161
Carolina Wren – 2
American Robin – 1
Gray Catbird – 11
Northern Mockingbird – 7
European Starling – 89
Yellow Warbler – 6
Ovenbird – 1
Common Yellowthroat – 8
Song Sparrow – 3
Swamp Sparrow – 2
Northern Cardinal – 5
Blue Grosbeak – 6
Bobolink – 1
Red-winged Blackbird – 83
Orchard Oriole – 3
House Finch – 17
American Goldfinch – 21
SPECIES: 59
INDIVIDUALS: 1799

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

REPTILES
Eastern Box Turtle - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail – 4
Spicebush Swallowtail – 2
Cabbage White – 4
Orange Sulphur – 21
Pearl Crescent – 8
Common Buckeye – 22
Gray Hairstreak – 2
Monarch – 38 (1 caterpillar)
Common Sootywing – 1
Zabulon Skipper – 3
Least Skipper – 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 3
Needham’s Skimmer – 25
Twelve-spotted Skimmer – 1
Eastern Pondhawk – 9
Black Saddlebags - 25

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar’s Bluet - 20

MOTHS
Spotted Datana Caterpillar – 1



     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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