05/30/12 – 710am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 71-77 degrees, W 3K- SSE 6K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose – 37 (20 adults, 17 goslings)
Wood Duck – 1 (hen)
Gadwall – 2
Mallard X American Wigeon – 1 (hybrid drake, second duck unknown)
American Black Duck – 4
Mallard – 69
Canvasback – 1 (hen)
Lesser Scaup – 2 (hens)
Bufflehead – 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck – 3
Pied-billed Grebe – 4
Double-crested Cormorant – 9
Least Bittern – 2
Great Blue Heron – 18
Great Egret – 1
Snowy Egret – 4
Glossy Ibis – 1
Osprey – 10
Peregrine Falcon – 1 (adult)
Black-bellied Plover – 1
Semipalmated Plover – 12
Killdeer – 10
*BLACK-NECKED STILT – 2
Spotted Sandpiper – 8
*WHIMBREL – 6
*RUDDY TURNSTONE – 26
Semipalmated Sandpiper – 332
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER – 16
Peep sp – 4
*DUNLIN – 28
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE – 1 (female)
Laughing Gull – 4
Ring-billed Gull – 485
Herring Gull – 33
Great Black-backed Gull – 18
Least Tern – 2
Caspian Tern – 208
Common Tern – 1
Mourning Dove – 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo – 2
Chimney Swift – 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
Northern Flicker – 1
Willow Flycatcher – 1
Great Crested Flycatcher – 1
Eastern Kingbird – 5
Purple Martin – 3
Tree Swallow – 17
Barn Swallow – 9
Carolina Chickadee – 1
Carolina Wren – 2
Marsh Wren – 4
Gray Catbird – 8
Brown Thrasher – 1
European Starling – 19
Cedar Waxwing – 4
Yellow Warbler – 9
Common Yellowthroat – 29
Eastern Towhee – 1
Song Sparrow – 5
Swamp Sparrow – 4
Northern Cardinal – 4
Blue Grosbeak – 5
Indigo Bunting – 1
*DICKCISSEL – 1 (singing on top of pokeweed)
Red-winged Blackbird – 76
Common Grackle – 16
Brown-headed Cowbird – 5
Orchard Oriole – 8
House Finch – 1
American Goldfinch – 16
SPECIES: 69
INDIVIDUALS: 1632

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 1

REPTILES
N. Water Snake – 1

AMPHIBIANS
Bullfrog – 1

BUTTERFLIES
Spicebush Swallowtail – 1
Cabbage White – 20
Clouded Sulphur – 1
Orange Sulphur – 30
Gray Hairstreak – 3
Eastern Tailed Blue – 2
American Lady – 1
Common Buckeye – 3
Monarch – 1
Silver-spotted Skipper – 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 5
Blue Dasher – 1
Eastern Pondhawk – 6
Needham’s Skimmer – 25
Black Saddlebags - 4

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluets – 15+
Rambur Forktail – 25+


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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