**Strong storms from Sunday afternoon sure brought in some nice birds
from the upper Mid-west**  All those birds were close together soutb
of cross dike on one of two long narrow islands.


08/22/11 – 710am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/Fair, 71-80 degrees, WNW 6K- WNW 10K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Kye Jenkins

Canada Goose – 59
American Black Duck – 5
Mallard – 62
Blue-winged Teal – 2
Northern Shoveler – 4
Green-winged Teal – 8
Ruddy Duck – 5
Pied-billed Grebe – 23 (all 13 nests went under after heavy rains,
water in South cell very high, water appear on North Cell)
Double-crested Cormorant – 74
Great Blue Heron – 8
Great Egret – 4
Snowy Egret – 16
Little Blue Heron – 1 (immature)
Osprey – 14
Bald Eagle – 3 (1 adult, 2 immature)
Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 (female)
American Kestrel – 1
Peregrine Falcon – 2
Semipalmated Plover – 5
Killdeer – 2
Spotted Sandpiper – 8
Greater Yellowlegs – 28 (26 in mixed flock with 3 Lesser Yellowlegs, 4
Willet, godwit, dowitcher, phalarope and Bonapartes Gull, very cool to
see)
Willet – 4 (western)
Lesser Yellowlegs – 26
Marbled Godwit – 1 (photos taken by Kye including in flight)
Semipalmated Sandpiper – 20
Least Sandpiper – 9
White-rumped Sandpiper – 1
Short-billed Dowitcher – 1 (prairie)
Wilson’s Phalarope – 1 (juvenile)
Laughing Gull – 13
Bonaparte’s Gull – 1 (juvenile/1st y, starting to molt)
Ring-billed Gull – 12
Herring Gull – 10
Great Black-backed Gull – 9
Caspian Tern – 214
Common Tern – 2
Forster’s Tern – 16
Mourning Dove – 8
Chimney Swift – 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird – 1
Northern Flicker – 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee – 1
Willow Flycatcher – 1
Eastern Kingbird – 9
Purple Martin – 21
Tree Swallow – 1
Bank Swallow – 20
Barn Swallow – 49
Carolina Chickadee – 2
Carolina Wren – 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1
Gray Catbird – 5
European Starling – 210
Yellow Warbler – 2
American Redstart – 1
Common Yellowthroat – 1
Song Sparrow – 3
Swamp Sparrow – 1
Northern Cardinal – 2
Blue Grosbeak – 2
Red-winged Blackbird – 79
Brown-headed Cowbird – 3
Orchard Oriole – 2
House Finch – 15
American Goldfinch – 22
SPECIES: 66
INDIVIDUALS: 1140

REPTILES
Eastern Mud Turtle - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail – 8
Spicebush Swallowtail – 1
Cabbage White – 2
Orange Sulphur - 15
Clouded Sulphur – 1
Pearl Crescent – 6
Common Buckeye – 21
Gray Hairstreak – 1
Monarch – 43 (3 caterpillar)
Common Sootywing – 1
Least Skipper – 2
Sachem – 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 6
Needham’s Skimmer – 24
Twelve-spotted Skimmer – 2
Four-spotted Pennant – 1
Eastern Pondhawk – 6
Black Saddlebags - 50

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar’s Bluet – 20+


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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