04/02/12 – 720am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair/PC, 45-59 degrees, NW  9K- NW 12K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 10
Wood Duck – 4 (2 pairs)
Gadwall – 6 (3 pairs)
American Black Duck – 5 (3 drakes, 2 hens)
Mallard – 23
Blue-winged Teal – 4 (3 drakes, 1 hen)
Northern Shoveler – 69
Green-winged Teal – 68
Ring-necked Duck – 32
Lesser Scaup – 44
Bufflehead – 42
Red-breasted Merganser – 9 (4 drakes, 5 hens)
Ruddy Duck – 219
Common Loon – 3 (all headed NNE)
Pied-billed Grebe – 10
*NORTHERN GANNET – 1 (adult, flew up toward the North Point SP concrete pier)
Double-crested Cormorant – 19
Great Blue Heron – 7
Great Egret – 1
Turkey Vulture – 2
Osprey – 8
Bald Eagle – 5 (2 adults, 3 immature)
Sharp-shinned Hawk – 2
Peregrine Falcon – 1
American Coot – 61
Killdeer- 5
Greater Yellowlegs – 8
Lesser Yellowlegs – 23
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER – 2
*DUNLIN – 40
*RUFF – 1 (molted female, likely from juv to adult)
Wilson’s Snipe – 2
Bonaparte’s Gull – 310
Ring-billed Gull – 26
Herring Gull – 4
Great Black-backed Gull – 3
*CASPIAN TERN – 36
Mourning Dove – 6
Belted Kingfisher – 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
Downy Woodpecker – 1
Northern Flicker – 3
American Crow – 1
Purple Martin – 2
Tree Swallow – 47 (several headed NE)
Barn Swallow – 21 (a few headed NE)
Carolina Chickadee – 3
Brown Creeper – 1
Carolina Wren – 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet – 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1
American Robin – 2
Brown Thrasher – 2
European Starling – 69
Eastern Towhee – 2
Field Sparrow – 3
Song Sparrow – 17
Swamp Sparrow – 6
White-throated Sparrow – 2
Northern Cardinal – 6
Red-winged Blackbird – 161 (several headed NE)
Common Grackle – 9
Brown-headed Cowbird – 17
House Finch – 3
American Goldfinch – 8
SPECIES: 66
INDIVIDUALS: 1517

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 2

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White – 22
Orange Sulphur – 4

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 6

BEETLES
Multi-colored Asian Lady Beetle – 1



      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD
      

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