10/17/11 – 710am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/Fair, 62-70 degrees, W 5K- WSW 7K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 204
Gadwall – 282
American Wigeon – 2
American Black Duck – 23
Mallard – 87
Blue-winged Teal – 2
Northern Shoveler – 72
Northern Pintail – 9
Green-winged Teal – 34
Lesser Scaup – 4
Ruddy Duck – 226
Pied-billed Grebe – 11
Double-crested Cormorant – 58
Great Blue Heron – 6
Osprey – 1 (near pleasure island)
Bald Eagle – 3
Northern Harrier – 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk – 2
Merlin – 1
Peregrine Falcon – 1
American Coot – 116
Black-bellied Plover – 1
Lesser Yellowlegs – 7
Laughing Gull – 1
Ring-billed Gull – 4
Herring Gull – 6
Great Black-backed Gull – 2
Caspian Tern – 2
Forster’s Tern – 1
Mourning Dove – 7
Chimney swift – 11
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 3
Downy Woodpecker – 1
Northern Flicker – 2
Eastern Phoebe – 3
American Crow – 11
Tree swallow – 29
Carolina Chickadee – 1
Tufted Titmouse – 1
Carolina Wren – 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet – 7
Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 2
American Robin – 3
Gray Catbird – 4
Northern Mockingbird – 1
European Starling – 371
Orange-crowned Warbler – 1
Magnolia Warbler – 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 59
Palm Warbler – 1 (yellow)
Blackpoll Warbler – 3
Eastern Towhee – 3
Chipping Sparrow – 4
Field Sparrow – 1
Song Sparrow – 24
Swamp Sparrow – 34
White-throated Sparrow – 5
White-crowned Sparrow – 1
Northern Cardinal – 5
Red-winged Blackbird – 27
American Goldfinch – 2
SPECIES: 61
INDIVIDUALS: 1799

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 3

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White – 15
Orange Sulphur – 60
Clouded/Orange Sulphur – 6 (female white form)
Eastern Tailed Blue – 1
Variegated Fritillary – 4
Pearl Crescent – 30
Eastern Comma – 1
Mourning Cloak – 1
Red Admiral – 1
Common Buckeye – 350
Monarch – 200
Wild Indigo Duskywing – 1
Fiery Skipper – 1

DRAGONFLIES
Needham’s Skimmer – 1
Black Saddlebags – 2
Wandering Glider – 9

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth – 10 (Woolly Bear)
Salt Marsh Moth – 3 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Virginian Tiger Moth – 16 (Yellow Bear, several color variety)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth – 3
Smeared Dagger Moth – 2 (smartweed caterpillar)
Large Yellow Underwing Moth  - 1 (caterpillar)

*Sawflies??*
Possible Loblolly Pine Sawfly, over 100 feeding on long pine needle on
a young pine about 6’ in height near the state park beach.   Had poor
photo on my blackberry phone.   Green caterpillars with black striped
from head to end and a black spot near end, brown head.   I checked
the website site for loblolly pine sawfly and didn’t see black spot on
end.  Will go back next Monday hopefully with a digital camera.


      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD
      

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