Hart-Miller Island, 12/04/17

[Kevin Graff]

12/04/17 - 715am-3pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, B Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/Haze, 30-48 degrees, calm- ESE 4K   OBS: 5 (including 4 park rangers)

CACKLING "RICHARDSON" GOOSE – 1
Canada Goose – 121
Tundra Swan – 11
Gadwall – 220
American Wigeon – 34
American Black Duck – 253
Mallard – 964
Northern Shoveler – 32
Northern Pintail – 355
Green-winged Teal – 40

*CANVASBACK – 2

Ring-necked Duck – 3
Greater Scaup – 3
Lesser Scaup – 2594
*WHITE-WINGED SCOTER – 1

*BLACK SCOTER – 2 (hens)

Bufflehead – 58

*COMMON GOLDENEYE – 6

Hooded Merganser – 12
Red-breasted Merganser – 16
Ruddy Duck – 135

*RED-THROATED LOON – 1

Common Loon – 2
Pied-billed Grebe – 2
Double-crested Cormorant – 8
Great Blue Heron – 6
Turkey Vulture – 1
Bald Eagle – 6
Northern Harrier – 4
Peregrine Falcon – 1
American Coot – 32
Killdeer – 1
Dunlin – 1

*BONAPARTE'S GULL – 2

Ring-billed Gull – 42
Herring Gull – 97

*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL – 1 (1st W)

Great Black-backed Gull – 42
Mourning Dove – 30

*GREAT HORNED OWL – 1

Downy Woodpecker – 2
Northern Flicker – 3
American Crow – 3
Carolina Chickadee – 1
Carolina Wren – 2

*BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER – 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 1
European Starling – 161

*AMERICAN PIPIT – 1

*SNOW BUNTING – 5

Eastern Towhee – 2
Field Sparrow – 1
Savannah Sparrow – 28
Song Sparrow – 96
Swamp Sparrow – 16
White-throated Sparrow – 33

8WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW – 2

“Slate-colored” Junco – 2
Northern Cardinal – 10
Red-winged Blackbird – 154
American Goldfinch – 21
SPECIES: 61   INDIVIDUALS: 5688

MAMMALS: Red Fox – 4 Coyote (tracks) WT Deer (tracks) Raccoon (tracks) Mice (tracks)

BUTTERFLIES: Cabbage White – 1

MOTHS: Virginia Tiger Moth – 3 (Woolly Bear)

   

    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD
    KeyWests...@gmail.com