04/16/12 – 710am-150pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair/Haze, 56-76 degrees, SW 2K- SE 8K, Gust to 16K
OBSERVER: Kevin Graff

Canada Goose – 10 (2 on nests)
Wood Duck – 3 (2 drakes, 1 hen)
Gadwall – 4
American Wigeon – 4
American Black Duck – 4
Mallard – 16
Blue-winged Teal – 12
Northern Shoveler – 26
Green-winged Teal – 26
Ring-necked Duck – 1 (hen)
Lesser Scaup – 88
Bufflehead – 6
Red-breasted Merganser – 5 (hens)
Ruddy Duck – 162
Common Loon – 7 (all flying over headed NNE, all in breeding plumage)
Pied-billed Grebe – 11
Double-crested Cormorant - 92 (flocks of 6, 28, 8, 12, 9, 13 & 5 headed NNE)
Great Blue Heron – 13 (2 flocks high flying, 6 & 2 headed NE)
Great Egret – 3
Snowy Egret – 1
Tricolored Heron – 1 (adult, flew over North Cell and disappeared into
the phrag near the tip)
Glossy Ibis – 1
Osprey – 10
Bald Eagle – 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon – 1
American Coot – 66
Killdeer – 5
Greater Yellowlegs – 9
Lesser Yellowlegs – 53
Least Sandpiper – 11
Pectoral Sandpiper – 3
Dunlin – 85
Stilt Sandpiper – 3
Wilson’s Snipe – 5
Bonaparte’s Gull – 13
Ring-billed Gull – 36
Herring Gull – 8
Great Black-backed Gull – 6
Caspian Tern – 164
Forster’s Tern – 8 (single flock headed S early am)
Mourning Dove – 3
Belted Kingfisher – 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 2
Eastern Kingbird – 1
Blue Jay – 6 (4 high flying headed NE)
Fish Crow – 2
N. Rough-winged Swallow – 2
Tree Swallow – 19
Barn Swallow – 9
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren – 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1
European Starling – 62
Common Yellowthroat – 1
Northern Parula – 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 5
Eastern Towhee – 1
Savannah Sparrow – 3
Song Sparrow – 8
Swamp Sparrow – 4 (2 in woods)
White-throated Sparrow – 2
Northern Cardinal – 6
Red-winged Blackbird – 82
Common Grackle – 7
Brown-headed Cowbird – 6
House Finch – 2
American Goldfinch – 13
SPECIES: 67
INDIVIDUALS: 1234

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 1

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle – 5

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail – 2
Cabbage White – 19
Clouded/Orange Sulphur – 2 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur – 6
Eastern Tailed Blue – 1
Pearl Crescent – 18
Question Mark – 2
American Lady – 1
Red Admiral – 1
Red-spotted Purple – 1 (caterpillar, hanging from a picnic table at the beach)
Monarch – 1
Juvenal’s Duskywing – 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing – 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 6

BEETLES
Bronzed Tiger Beetle – 45+
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle – 2
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle – 2



      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD
      

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