05/07/12 – 715am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC/Overcast, 56-66 degrees, E 3K- SE 8K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Joe Hanfman, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 14
Wood Duck – 2
Gadwall – 8
American Black Duck – 6
Mallard – 16
Northern Shoveler – 3
Green-winged Teal – 2
**Canvasback – 1 (Bob R only)
Ring-necked Duck – 1
Lesser Scaup – 3
Red-breasted Merganser – 7 (hens)
Ruddy Duck – 23
Common Loon – 2 (flying over headed N)
Pied-billed Grebe – 8
Double-crested Cormorant – 28
**Least Bittern – 1
Great Blue Heron – 9
Great Egret – 3
Snowy Egret – 2
**Glossy Ibis – 1
Osprey – 10
Bald Eagle – 2 (adult, immature)
Peregrine Falcon – 1
American Coot – 13
Black-bellied Plover – 160
**American Golden-Plover – 1
Semipalmated Plover – 104
Killdeer – 8
Spotted Sandpiper – 5
Solitary Sandpiper – 3
Greater Yellowlegs – 12
**Willet – 1 (eastern)
Lesser Yellowlegs – 118
Semipalmated Sandpiper – 17
Least Sandpiper – 110
Peep sp – 2
**Pectoral Sandpiper – 7
Dunlin – 331
Short-billed Dowitcher – 18 (atlantic)
Bonaparte’s Gull – 57
Ring-billed Gull – 11
Herring Gull – 40
Great Black-backed Gull – 13
Least Tern – 11
Caspian Tern – 247
Mourning Dove – 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
**Willow Flycatcher – 1
Great Crested Flycatcher – 1
Eastern Kingbird – 9
Fish Crow – 1
Tree Swallow – 18
Bank Swallow – 4
Barn Swallow – 31
Carolina Chickadee – 1
Carolina Wren – 2
Marsh Wren – 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1
Wood Thrush – 1
Gray Catbird – 11
Northern Mockingbird – 2
European Starling – 3
Northern Waterthrush – 1
**Tennessee Warbler – 1 (adult male)
Common Yellowthroat – 32
Magnolia Warbler – 1
Yellow Warbler – 14
Blackpoll Warbler – 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 8
Song Sparrow – 4
Swamp Sparrow – 4
Northern Cardinal – 7
Blue Grosbeak – 2
Red-winged Blackbird – 84
Common Grackle – 17
Brown-headed Cowbird – 8
Orchard Oriole – 8
House Finch – 3
American Goldfinch – 22
SPECIES: 78
INDIVIDUALS: 1752

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 1

BUTTERFLIES
Orange Sulphur – 2
Cabbage White – 2
Red Admiral – 9
Pearl Crescent – 4
Skipper sp – 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 3

DAMSELFLIES
Rambur's Forktail - 10+
forktail sp - 10+

BEETLES
Seven Spotted Lady Beetle – 2
Stag Beetle – 1 (Platycerus piceus)



     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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