04/30/12 – 710am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC/MC, 43-59 degrees, NE 9K- SE 6K
OBSERVERS: Don Burggraf, Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 14
Wood Duck – 5 (4 drakes, 1 hen)
Gadwall – 8 (4 pairs)
American Black Duck – 8 (4 pairs)
Mallard – 16 (8 pairs)
Blue-winged Teal – 2 (pair)
Northern Shoveler – 14 (7 pairs)
Green-winged Teal – 238
Lesser Scaup – 14
Bufflehead – 1 (drake, South Cell)
Red-breasted Merganser – 3 (hens)
Ruddy Duck – 48
Common Loon – 2 (flying over headed N)
Pied-billed Grebe – 8
Double-crested Cormorant – 35 (include single flock of 20 headed N)
Great Blue Heron – 9
Great Egret – 1
Snowy Egret – 2
Osprey – 10
Bald Eagle – 3 (2 adults, immature)
Northern Harrier – 1
Merlin – 1
Peregrine Falcon – 1
American Coot – 51
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER – 153
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER – 1 (alternate plumage)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER – 5
Killdeer – 5
Spotted Sandpiper – 1
Greater Yellowlegs – 33
*WIILLET - 1 (Eastern)
Lesser Yellowlegs – 221
Semipalmated Sandpiper – 3
Least Sandpiper – 24
Pectoral Sandpiper – 18
Dunlin – 374
*RUFF – 1 (female, photos taken by Don B)
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER – 5 (atlantic race)
Wilson’s Snipe – 3
Bonaparte’s Gull – 330
Laughing Gull – 2
Ring-billed Gull – 77
Herring Gull – 52
*THAYER’S GULL – 1 (molting from 1st winter to 1st summer)
Great Black-backed Gull – 14
*LEAST TERN – 6
Caspian Tern – 224
*COMMON TERN – 1 (distance flyby over bay)
Mourning Dove – 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
Great Crested Flycatcher – 2
Eastern Kingbird – 6
Blue Jay – 2
Fish Crow – 1
N. Rough-winged Swallow – 6
Purple Martin – 19
Tree Swallow – 260
Bank Swallow – 8
Barn Swallow – 81
Carolina Chickadee – 1
Carolina Wren – 2
House Wren – 1
Marsh Wren – 2
Gray Catbird – 9
Northern Mockingbird – 2
European Starling – 17
*AMERICAN PIPIT – 3 (breeding plumage)
Ovenbird – 1
*BLUE-WINGED WARBLER – 1
Black-and-white Warbler – 1
Common Yellowthroat – 31
Yellow Warbler – 10
Black-throated Blue Warbler – 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 13
Yellow-breasted Chat – 1 (possible 2)
Chipping Sparrow – 1
Savannah Sparrow – 2
Song Sparrow – 3
Swamp Sparrow – 2
White-throated Sparrow – 2
Northern Cardinal – 6
Red-winged Blackbird – 96
Common Grackle – 16
Brown-headed Cowbird – 6
Orchard Oriole – 5
American Goldfinch – 19
SPECIES: 86
INDIVIDUALS: 2693

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 2

BUTTERFLIES
Orange Sulphur – 1
Red Admiral – 1
Lady sp - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 2

DAMSELFLIES
Rambur’s Forktail – 2



     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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