09/19/11 – 710am-305pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC, 54-69 degrees, calm- SSE 5K (briefly E at 10K after noon)
OBSERVERS: Diane Ford, Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

*SNOW GOOSE – 1 (adult)
Canada Goose – 89
Gadwall – 2
American Wigeon – 1
American Black Duck – 4
Mallard – 168
Blue-winged Teal – 11
Northern Shoveler – 238
Northern Pintail – 4
Green-winged Teal – 664
Ruddy Duck – 5
Pied-billed Grebe – 16
Double-crested Cormorant – 38
Great Blue Heron – 8
Great Egret – 1
Snowy Egret – 3
Osprey – 1
Bald Eagle – 1 (immature)
Sharp-shinned Hawk – 2
American Kestrel – 1
Peregrine Falcon – 1
Black-bellied Plover – 8
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER – 2
Semipalmated Plover – 1
Greater Yellowlegs – 3
Lesser Yellowlegs – 7
Spotted Sandpiper – 1
*SANDERLING – 5
Least Sandpiper – 1
peep sp - 6
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER – 1
*BAIRD’S SANDPIPER – 2 (juvenile)
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1
Laughing Gull – 4
Ring-billed Gull – 21
Herring Gull – 7
Great Black-backed Gull – 11
Caspian Tern – 90
Forster’s Tern – 1
Mourning Dove – 10
Chimney Swift – 15
Ruby-throated Hummingbird – 2
Belted Kingfisher – 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
Northern Flicker – 5
Tree Swallow – 8
Carolina Chickadee – 1
Carolina Wren – 3
Marsh Wren – 1
Gray Catbird – 7
Northern Mockingbird – 2
European Starling – 184
Yellow Warbler – 2
Magnolia Warbler – 2
Palm Warbler – 1 (western)
Blackpoll Warbler – 1
American Redstart – 2
Ovenbird – 1
Common Yellowthroat – 21
Song Sparrow – 1
Northern Cardinal – 6
Red-winged Blackbird – 61
Brown-headed Cowbird – 20
Baltimore Oriole – 1 (immature male)
American Goldfinch – 14
SPECIES: 64
INDIVIDUALS: 1798

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 2

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White – 5
Orange Sulphur – 40
Clouded/Orange Sulphur – 9 (female white form)
Eastern Tailed Blue – 5
Variegated Fritillary – 2
Pearl Crescent – 27
Lady sp – 1
Common Buckeye – 45
Red-spottted Purple – 1
Monarch – 276

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green darner – 2
Black Saddlebags – 34
Needham’s Skimmer – 8

DAMSELFLIES
Lack of time to id’s

MOTHS
Saltmarsh Caterpillar Moth – 1 (caterpillar, black)
Virginian Tiger Moth – 6 (Yellow Bear: 1 black, 3 dark brown and 2 tan)
White-lined Sphinx Moth – 1 (caterpillar)

BEETLES
Spotted Cucumber Beetle – 1


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD
    

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