08/30/11 – 715am-305pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny, 59-80 degrees, calm- E 9K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 92
American Black Duck – 13
Mallard – 92
Blue-winged Teal – 5
Northern Pintail – 1 (hen)
Green-winged Teal – 8
Ruddy Duck – 5
Pied-billed Grebe – 11
Double-crested Cormorant – 67
Great Blue Heron – 9
Snowy Egret – 1
Turkey Vulture – 1
Osprey – 9
Bald Eagle – 2 (adult, immature)
Northern Harrier – 1
Cooper’s Hawk – 1
Red-shouldered Hawk – 1
Peregrine Falcon – 1
Black-bellied Plover – 1 (flew south over bay toward Kent County)
American Golden Plover – 1 (flyover calling)
Killdeer – 1
Lesser Yellowlegs – 1
Spotted Sandpiper – 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper – 1
Least Sandpiper – 3
Laughing Gull – 6
Ring-billed Gull – 18
Herring Gull – 3
Great Black-backed Gull – 12
Caspian Tern – 172
Forster’s Tern – 6
Black Tern – 2
Mourning Dove – 12
Chimney Swift – 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird – 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
Pileated Woodpecker – 1 (2nd island record, 1st one earlier this year)
Great Crested Flycatcher – 1
Eastern Kingbird – 1
Horned Lark – 2 (adult female & juvenile, sand pit area)
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Purple Martin – 3
Tree Swallow – 32
Bank Swallow – 137
Barn Swallow – 98
Carolina Wren – 4
Marsh Wren – 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 2
Gray Catbird – 6
Northern Mockingbird – 2
European Starling – 169
Yellow Warbler – 1
Back-and-white Warbler – 2
American Redstart – 1
Common Yellowthroat – 4
Song Sparrow – 5
Northern Cardinal – 10
Blue Grosbeak – 1
Bobolink – 103 (many on perch and some calling overhead)
Red-winged Blackbird – 23 (record low #)
Brown-headed Cowbird – 25
Orchard Oriole – 1
House Finch – 36
American Goldfinch - 23
SPECIES: 64
INDIVIDUALS: 1266

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail – 3
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail – 1
Orange Sulphur – 9
Pearl Crescent – 2
Common Buckeye – 2
Question Mark – 1
Eastern Tailed Blue – 1
Monarch – 31
Common Sootywing – 2
Wild Indigo Duskywing – 1
Broad-winged Skipper – 3

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green darner – 3
Needham’s Skimmer – 22
Twelve-spotted Skimmer – 3
Eastern Pondhawk – 4
Black Saddlebags - 75



      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD
      

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