04/25/12 – 710am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC/MC, 42-66 degrees, W 3K- WSW 9K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 14
Wood Duck – 3 (2 drakes, 1 hen)
Gadwall – 8 (4 pairs)
American Black Duck – 5 (3 drakes, 2 hens)
Mallard – 24 (12 pairs)
Blue-winged Teal – 22 (11 pairs)
Northern Shoveler – 48
Green-winged Teal – 36
Ring-necked Duck – 6
Lesser Scaup – 61
Red-breasted Merganser – 3 (all hens)
Ruddy Duck – 82
Pied-billed Grebe – 11
Double-crested Cormorant – 41 (include 3 flocks of 9, 16 & 8 headed NNE)
Great Blue Heron – 9
Great Egret – 5
Snowy Egret – 2
*GLOSSY IBIS – 3
Turkey Vulture – 6
Osprey – 10
Bald Eagle – 5 (4 adults, 1 immature)
Peregrine Falcon – 1
American Coot – 77
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER – 87
Killdeer – 5
*BLACK-NECKED STILT – 2
Greater Yellowlegs – 30
Lesser Yellowlegs – 121
*SEMIPALAMTED SANDPIPER – 1
Least Sandpiper – 5
Peep sp – 3
*DUNLIN – 119
*SHORT-BILLED DOWICHTER – 3 (ATLANTIC)
Wilson’s Snipe – 2
Bonaparte’s Gull – 55
Ring-billed Gull – 37
Herring Gull – 67
Great Black-backed Gull – 10
*LEAST TERN – 3
*CASPIAN TERN – 463
Mourning Dove – 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
Eastern Kingbird – 4
Fish Crow – 5
N. Rough-winged Swallow – 2
Tree Swallow – 19
Barn Swallow – 15
Carolina Wren – 2
Marsh Wren – 3
Gray Catbird – 4
Northern Mockingbird – 1
European Starling – 14
Common Yellowthroat – 45
Yellow Warbler – 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 9
Prairie Warbler – 1
Eastern Towhee – 1
Savannah Sparrow – 2
Song Sparrow – 5
Swamp Sparrow – 4
White-throated Sparrow – 5
Northern Cardinal – 5
Red-winged Blackbird – 103
Common Grackle – 13
Brown-headed Cowbird – 5
Orchard Oriole – 2
American Goldfinch – 16
SPECIES: 66
INDIVIDUALS: 1790

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 1

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle – 8
Red-eared Turtle – 1

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail – 1
Black Swallowtail – 5
Cabbage White – 5
Clouded Sulphur – 1
Orange Sulphur – 7
Eastern Tailed Blue – 7
Pearl Crescent – 17
American Lady – 1
Lady sp – 1
Silver-spotted Skipper – 2
Duskywing sp – 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 5

DAMSELFIES
Rambur Forktail – 4
Forktail sp – 5+

MOTHS
Eastern Tent  Caterpillar - 1

BEETLES
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle – 2



     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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