03/26/12 – 715am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny/PC, 50-57 degrees, W 4 mph- NW 17 mph, Gust to 26
OBSERVER: Kevin Graff

Canada Goose – 10
Wood Duck – 1 (hen)
Gadwall – 18
American Wigeon – 2 (pair)
American Black Duck – 2 (pair)
Mallard – 23
Blue-winged Teal – 2 (pair)
*NORTHERN SHOVELER – 220 (63 at cross dike pit, 157 at North Cell)
Green-winged Teal – 66
Ring-necked Duck – 30
Lesser Scaup – 43
Bufflehead – 72
Hooded Merganser – 1 (hen)
Red-breasted Merganser – 3 (2 drakes, 1 hen)
Ruddy Duck – 92
*RING-NECKED PHEASANT – 1 (male, first found on Fri during control
burning, relocated;
                                                 new island species #289)
Pied-billed Grebe – 8
Double-crested Cormorant – 21
Great Blue Heron – 4
Turkey Vulture – 2
Osprey – 10
Bald Eagle – 5 (3 adults, 2 immature)
Northern Harrier – 2 (gray ghost, female)
Cooper’s Hawk – 1
American Kestrel – 1
Peregrine Falcon – 2 (Craighill Channel Lower Range Rear Light (Miller
Island Range))
*SORA – 1
American Coot – 227
Killdeer – 6
Greater Yellowlegs – 1
Lesser Yellowlegs – 18
*LEAST SANDPIPER – 1
*BONAPARTE’S GULL – 380
Ring-billed Gull – 13
Herring Gull – 4
Great Black-backed Gull – 6
Mourning Dove – 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
Northern Flicker – 2
Fish Crow – 1
Tree Swallow – 16
Carolina Wren – 2
European Starling – 65
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 1
Eastern Towhee – 2
Field Sparrow – 1
Song Sparrow – 10
Swamp Sparrow – 2
White-throated Sparrow – 2
Northern Cardinal – 2
Red-winged Blackbird – 186
*EASTERN MEADOWLARK – 1
Common Grackle – 7
Brown-headed Cowbird – 5
House Finch – 2
American Goldfinch – 8
SPECIES: 56
INDIVIDUALS: 1617

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 3

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle – 2
Northern Water Snake – 1

AMPHIBIANS
Green Frog – 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White – 10
Orange Sulphur – 4

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 2

BEETLES
Multi-colored Asian Lady Beetle – 1
American Oil Beetle – 1
Beetle sp – 1 (looks like a devil’s coach horse that shot out a yellow fluid,
                       lost it during a very gusty wine in pm before confirm)


Also 6 Double-crested & 1 Great Cormorant scoped at Craighill Channel
Lower Range Front Light (North Point Range)


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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