10/24/11 – 710am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: MC, 46-62 degrees, WNW 3K- SE 4K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Cackling “Richardson’s” Goose – 1 (w/ flock of 6 canada geese headed S over bay)
Canada Goose – 267 (several small flocks headed S)
Wood Duck – 2
Gadwall – 43
American Black Duck – 11
Mallard – 53
Blue-winged Teal – 5
Northern Shoveler – 152
Green-winged Teal – 30
Lesser Scaup – 74
Ruddy Duck – 212
Pied-billed Grebe – 22
Double-crested Cormorant – 188 (many headed S)
Great Blue Heron – 10
Bald Eagle – 1
Northern Harrier – 1
Cooper’s Hawk – 1
Red-shouldered Hawk – 1
Merlin – 2
Peregrine Falcon – 1
American Coot – 13
Black-bellied Plover – 24
Spotted Sandpiper – 2
Lesser Yellowlegs – 6
Least Sandpiper – 9
Peep sp – 8
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1
Dunlin – 46
Stilt Sandpiper – 6
Laughing Gull – 1
Ring-billed Gull – 10
Herring Gull – 19
Great Black-backed Gull – 29
Caspian Tern – 7
Mourning Dove – 9
Belted Kingfisher – 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 2
Downy Woodpecker – 2
Northern Flicker – 4
Eastern Phoebe – 1
Tree Swallow – 90
Carolina Wren – 1
Winter Wren – 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet – 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 16
Hermit Thrush – 12
Northern Mockingbird – 1
Brown Thrasher – 1
European Starling – 228
Common Yellowthroat – 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 60
Eastern Towhee – 2
Chipping Sparrow – 3
Field Sparrow – 2
Savannah Sparrow – 7
Nelson’s Sparrow – 1
Song Sparrow – 82
Swamp Sparrow – 41
White-throated Sparrow – 5
Northern Cardinal – 7
Red-winged Blackbird – 94
Brown-headed Cowbird – 6
American Goldfinch – 2
SPECIES: 62
INDIVIDUALS: 1945

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 2

REPTILES
Eastern Garter Snake – 1 (sunned itself on road)

AMPHIBIANS
Spring Peeper – 2 (calling)

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White – 8
Orange Sulphur – 52
Clouded Sulphur – 1
Clouded/Orange Sulphur – 4 (female white form)
Pearl Crescent – 2
Common Buckeye – 95
Painted Lady – 1
Monarch – 26

DAMSELFLIES
Bluets sp – 2

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth – 5 (Woolly Bear)
Salt Marsh Moth – 1 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Virginian Tiger Moth – 3 (Yellow Bear)
Smeared Dagger Moth – 1 (smartweed caterpillar)

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