10/03/11 – 715am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: MC, 45-53 degrees, W 3K- SSW 3K (couple passing showers in am)
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 135 (single flock of 49 headed SE)
Wood Duck – 3
American Black Duck – 25
Mallard – 69
Blue-winged Teal – 78
Northern Shoveler – 75
Northern Pintail – 5
Green-winged Teal – 26
Ruddy Duck – 14
Pied-billed Grebe – 19
Double-crested Cormorant – 23
Great Blue Heron – 5
Osprey – 1
Bald Eagle – 1
Northern Harrier – 1
Red-shouldered Hawk – 1
American Kestrel – 1
Peregrine Falcon – 2
*SORA – 1 (heard calling very close at South Cell)
Black-bellied Plover – 8
Greater Yellowlegs – 1
Lesser Yellowlegs – 6
Sanderling – 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper – 12
Western Sandpiper – 1
Least Sandpiper – 1
White-rumped Sandpiper – 1
Pectoral Sandpiper – 21
Dunlin – 3
Stilt Sandpiper – 4
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER – 1
Ring-billed Gull – 19
Herring Gull – 6
Great Black-backed Gull – 4
Caspian Tern – 26
Forster’s Tern – 2
Mourning Dove – 12
Belted Kingfisher – 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
Northern Flicker – 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee – 1
Eastern Phoebe – 4
Tree Swallow – 26
Barn Swallow – 2
Carolina Chickadee – 1
Tufted Titmouse – 1
Brown Creeper – 1
Carolina Wren – 1
House Wren – 2
Marsh Wren – 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1
Gray Catbird – 11
European Starling – 26
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 5
Black-throated Green Warbler – 1
Palm Warbler – 6 (5 western, 1 yellow)
Blackpoll Warbler – 1
Common Yellowthroat – 33
Wilson’s Warbler – 1 (immature female)
Eastern Towhee – 2
Field Sparrow – 1
Song Sparrow – 7
Swamp Sparrow – 1
White-throated Sparrow – 1
White-crowned Sparrow – 1 (immature)
Northern Cardinal – 9
Red-winged Blackbird – 13
American Goldfinch – 2
SPECIES: 68
INDIVIDUALS: 784

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 4

BUTTERFLIES
Orange Sulphur – 3
Common Buckeye – 38
Pearl Crescent – 7
Monarch - 73

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 2

MOTHS
Virginian Tiger Moth – 120+ (Yellow Bear, all over smartweed)
Salt Marsh Moth - 3 (Salt marsh caterpillar)
Isabella Tiger Moth – 4 (Woolly Bear)
Achemon Sphinx Moth – 1 (caterpillar)
Smeared Dagger Moth – 14 (Smartweed caterpillar)
*Plus one unidentified caterpillar (had poor photo on my blackberry phone)


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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