06/04/12 – 710am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair/MC, 64-71 degrees, W 4K- WNW 13K, Gust to 19K
OBSERVERS: John Dennehy, Kevin Graff, Joe Hanfman, Bob Ringler, Leslie Starr

Canada Goose – 62
Wood Duck – 1
American Black Duck – 5
Mallard – 50
Green-winged Teal – 2 (pair)
Bufflehead – 1 (hen)
Red-breasted Merganser – 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck – 1 (drake)
Pied-billed Grebe – 4
Double-crested Cormorant – 40
*AMERICAN BITTERN – 1 (Joe H)
Least Bittern – 1
Great Blue Heron – 104 (90% at North Cell)
Great Egret – 3
Snowy Egret – 3
Glossy Ibis – 55
Turkey Vulture – 1
Osprey – 10
Bald Eagle – 2 (adults)
Peregrine Falcon – 2
American Coot – 1
Black-bellied Plover – 6
Semipalmated Plover – 45
Killdeer – 9
*BLACK-NECKED STILT – 1
Spotted Sandpiper – 10
*WHIMBREL – 10
*RUDDY TURNSTONE – 26
*RED KNOT – 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER – 347
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER – 22
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER – 1
Dunlin – 6
Short-billed Dowitcher – 2
Laughing Gull – 2
Ring-billed Gull – 524
Herring Gull – 42
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL – 1 (1st summer)
Great Black-backed Gull – 3
Least Tern – 1
Caspian Tern – 312
Common Tern – 2
Forster’s Tern – 2
Mourning Dove – 4
Yellow-billed Cuckoo – 2
Chimney Swift – 8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird – 1
Willow Flycatcher – 1
Traill’s Flycatcher – 2
Eastern Kingbird – 6
Fish Crow – 1
Horned Lark – 1
N. Rough-winged Swallow – 2
Purple Martin – 18
Tree Swallow – 17
Bank Swallow – 4
Barn Swallow – 16
Marsh Wren – 4
Gray Catbird – 5
European Starling – 28
Cedar Waxwing – 8
Common Yellowthroat – 15
Yellow Warbler – 7
Song Sparrow – 4
Swamp Sparrow – 1
Northern Cardinal – 5
Blue Grosbeak – 4
Indigo Bunting – 3
Bobolink – 1 (Bob R+….)
Red-winged Blackbird – 74
Common Grackle – 13
Brown-headed Cowbird – 9
Orchard Oriole – 9
American Goldfinch – 17
SPECIES: 73
INDIVIDUALS: 2015

MAMMALS
Red Fox – 1

REPTILES
Black Rat Snake – 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White – 16
Orange Sulphur – 11
Eastern Tailed Blue – 1
Common Buckeye – 1
Monarch – 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing – 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner – 20
Eastern Pondhawk – 15
Slaty Skimmer – 2
Needham’s Skimmer - 20
Black Saddlebags – 10

DAMSELFLIES
Damselflies  sp – 1000+ (lack of time to count)


      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD
      

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