03/19/12 - 730am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD
WEATHER: Fog/Fair, 48-71 degrees, calm- SE 5K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler
Canada Goose - 12
MUTE SWAN - 2
Wood Duck - 2 (Bob only)
Gadwall - 46
American Wigeon - 2 (pair)
American Black Duck - 26
Mallard - 26
BLUE-WINGED TEAL - 2 (pair)
NORTHERN SHOVELER - 190 (*season high*)
Green-winged Teal - 73
Ring-necked Duck - 38 (unusually high # for here)
Greater Scaup - 3
Lesser Scaup - 38
scaup sp. - 14 (distance)
Bufflehead - 90
Hooded Merganser - 6 (hens)
Red-breasted Merganser - 16
Pied-billed Grebe - 8
Double-crested Cormorant - 19
Great Blue Heron - 6
Osprey - 5 (2 each at nest site, 5th soaring above 3rd nest site)
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 1
American Coot - 369
Killdeer - 10
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 9
Wilson's Snipe - 1
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 385
Ring-billed Gull - 11
Herring Gull - 3
Great Black-backed Gull - 6
Mourning Dove - 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 6
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Fish Crow - 34
Tree Swallow - 14
Carolina Chickadee - 2
Carolina Wren - 5
MARSH WREN - 1 (singing, seen short time later)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
European Starling - 19
Eastern Towhee - 3
Chipping Sparrow - 1 (Seen by Bob in woods, relocated later grassy
strip along ramp)
Field Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 17
Swamp Sparrow - 5
White-throated Sparrow - 9
"Slate-colored" Junco - 1
Northern Cardinal - 9
Red-winged Blackbird - 270
Common Grackle - 5
Brown-headed Cowbird - 26
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 6
SPECIES: 57
INDIVIDUALS: 1869
MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 26
Orange Sulphur - 4
unid orange/black butterfly - 1
duskywing sp - 2
Lack of time doing true bugs/beetles.
At least a dozen species of wildflowers in bloom, all aliens.
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
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