04/09/12 – 710am-130pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny/PC, 52-65 degrees, NW 6K – WSW 16K, Gust to 22K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 8 (one on nest)
Wood Duck – 4
Gadwall – 4
American Black Duck – 5
Mallard – 18
Blue-winged Teal – 2 (pair)
Northern Shoveler – 35
Green-winged Teal – 28
Ring-necked Duck – 7
Lesser Scaup – 285
Bufflehead – 34
Hooded Merganser – 9 (all hens)
Red-breasted Merganser – 5
Ruddy Duck – 240
Common Loon – 15 (all flying north)
Pied-billed Grebe – 13
Double-crested Cormorant – 55 (6 flocks headed N)
Great Blue Heron – 6
Great Egret – 1
Snowy Egret – 1
Black Vulture – 2
Turkey Vulture – 1
Osprey – 8
Bald Eagle – 3
Northern Harrier – 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk – 3
Cooper’s Hawk – 1
American Kestrel – 1
Peregrine Falcon – 1
American Coot – 51
Killdeer – 3
Greater Yellowlegs – 8
Lesser Yellowlegs – 18
Least Sandpiper – 6
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1
Dunlin – 20
Wilson’s Snipe – 2
Bonaparte’s Gull – 159
Ring-billed Gull – 7
Herring Gull – 9
Great Black-backed Gull – 6
Caspian Tern – 97
Mourning Dove – 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
Downy Woodpecker – 2
Crow sp – 2
N. Rough-winged Swallow – 1
Tree Swallow – 18
Barn Swallow – 6
Carolina Chickadee – 2
Carolina Wren – 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 2 (Bob only)
European Starling – 44
Eastern Towhee – 2
Song Sparrow – 9
Swamp Sparrow – 3
White-throated Sparrow – 6
Northern Cardinal – 6
Red-winged Blackbird – 91
Common Grackle – 9
Brown-headed Cowbird – 8
American Goldfinch – 9
SPECIES: 61
INDIVIDUALS: 1410

MAMMALS
Raccoon – 1
Red Fox – 2

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White – 11
Orange Sulphur – 5
Clouded Sulphur – 1
Clouded/Orange Sulphur – 1 (female white form)
Pearl Crescent – 6
Eastern Tailed Blue – 2
Lady sp – 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing – 1
Duskywing sp – 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 3

MOTHS
Eastern Tent Caterpillar – 23



     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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