05/16/12 – 710am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC, 64-78 degrees, calm- SE 6K (some haze)
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 25 (include 3 brood of 4 young each)
Gadwall – 2 (pair)
American Black Duck – 2 (pair, flyby)
Mallard – 21
Northern Shoveler – 1 (drake)
Canvasback – 1 (hen)
Ring-necked Duck – 2 (pair)
Lesser Scaup – 2 (pair)
Bufflehead – 2 (pair)
Red-breasted Merganser – 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck – 13
Pied-billed Grebe – 6
Double-crested Cormorant – 7
Great Blue Heron – 10
Great Egret – 5
Snowy Egret – 2
*TRICOLORED HERON – 1 (adult)
Glossy Ibis – 3
Osprey – 10
Peregrine Falcon – 1
Virginia Rail – 1 (calling several times close to edge)
*COMMON GALLINULE – 1 (adult)
American Coot – 14
Semipalmated Plover – 61
Killdeer – 13 (include 2 downy young)
*BLACK-NECKED STILT – 1
Greater Yellowlegs – 5
Lesser Yellowlegs – 7
Spotted Sandpiper – 5
Solitary Sandpiper – 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper – 211
Least Sandpiper – 148
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER – 1
Dunlin – 476
Stilt Sandpiper – 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER – 14 (12 atlantic, 2 prairie)
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE – 3 (1 male, 2 females)
Laughing Gull – 1 (breeding plumage adult)
Bonaparte’s Gull – 1 (1st summer)
Ring-billed Gull – 29
Herring Gull – 52
Great Black-backed Gull – 42
Least Tern – 3
Caspian Tern – 423
Common Tern – 1
Forster’s Tern – 1
Mourning Dove – 3
Downy Woodpecker – 1
Willow Flycatcher – 1
Empidonax flycatcher sp – 1
Great Crested Flycatcher – 1
Eastern Kingbird – 8
Red-eyed Vireo – 1
Blue Jay – 2
American Crow – 2
Purple Martin – 2
Tree Swallow – 23
Bank Swallow – 1
Barn Swallow – 19
Carolina Wren – 2
Marsh Wren – 4
Veery – 3
Swainson’s Thrush – 1
Wood Thrush – 1
American Robin – 1
Gray Catbird – 8
Northern Mockingbird – 2
European Starling – 6
Cedar Waxwing – 4
Northern Waterthrush – 1
Common Yellowthroat – 29
American Redstart – 2 (adult male, immature male)
Northern Parula – 1 (male)
Magnolia Warbler – 2
Yellow Warbler – 11
Blackpoll Warbler – 7
Black-throated Blue Warbler – 1 (male)
Black-throated Green Warbler – 1 (male)
Canada Warbler – 2 (pair)
Song Sparrow – 4
Swamp Sparrow – 2
Northern Cardinal – 4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak – 1 (male)
Blue Grosbeak – 2
Indigo Bunting – 1
Bobolink – 14
Red-winged Blackbird – 81
Common Grackle – 11
Brown-headed Cowbird – 7
Orchard Oriole – 12
House Finch – 2
American Goldfinch – 13
SPECIES: 91
INDIVIDUALS: 1941

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 1

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle – 2
Black Rat Snake - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler’s Toad – 1

BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail – 1
Black Swallowtail – 4
Cabbage White – 50
Clouded/Orange Sulphur – 1 (female white form)
Clouded Sulphur – 1
Orange Sulpher – 25
Sleepy Orange – 1
Summer Azure – 2
Pearl Crescent – 2
American Lady – 1
Common Buckeye – 6
Monarch – 6
Silver-spotted Skipper – 2
Skipper sp – 6 (some likely zabulon)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 6
Eastern Pondhawk – 2
Needham Skimmer – 1
Black Saddlebags – 1

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet – 20
Rambur’s Forktail – 5

MOTHS
Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth – 1

BEETLES
Bronzed Tiger Beetle – 25+
Eyed Click Beetle – 1
Multi-colored Asian Lady Beetle – 4 (2 mature larva)
Convergent Lady Beetle – 1
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle – 6



     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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