Hart-Miller Island, 08/14/17

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Kevin Graff

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Aug 17, 2017, 9:14:52 PM8/17/17
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*Heavy rain, again have caused water level at both cells to rise and very little mudflats left for shorebirds*


08/14/17 – 710am-3pm

Hart-Miller Island, Essex, B Co., MD

 

WEATHER: MC/Overcast, 66-78 degrees, N 3K- calm   OBS: Ann D, Kevin G, Joe H, Josephine K

 

Canada Goose – 167

Wood Duck – 24

Gadwall – 2

Mallard – 122

American Black Duck – 16

Mallard X Black Duck – 1 (hybrid)

Northern Shoveler – 1

Northern Pintail – 1

Green-winged Teal – 14

Ruddy Duck – 1

Pied-billed Grebe – 5

Double-crested Cormorant – 75

Great Blue Heron – 12

Snowy Egret – 1

Green Heron – 1

*YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON – 1

Turkey Vulture – 2

Osprey – 16

Cooper’s Hawk – 1

Bald Eagle – 3 (1 adult, 2 immature)

Peregrine Falcon – 1

*COMMON GALLINULE – 5 (juveniles)

*AMERICAN AVOCET – 13

Semipalmated Plover – 4

Killdeer – 7

Stilt Sandpiper – 2

Least Sandpiper – 43

Pectoral Sandpiper – 3

Semipalmated Sandpiper – 6

Peep Sp – 15

Short-billed Dowitcher – 19

Spotted Sandpiper – 2

Greater Yellowlegs – 26

Lesser Yellowlegs – 39

Laughing Gull – 25

Ring-billed Gull – 58

Herring Gull – 14

*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL – 1

Great Black-backed Gull – 59

Caspian Tern – 322

*ROYAL TERN – 3

Mourning Dove – 16

Yellow-billed Cuckoo – 2

Chimney Swift – 18

Ruby-throated Hummingbird – 7

Downy Woodpecker – 1

Traill’s Flycatcher – 1

Great Crested Flycatcher – 4

Eastern Kingbird – 8

Red-eyed Vireo – 1

Crow Sp – 3

Purple Martin – 27

N Rough-winged Swallow – 1

Tree Swallow – 12

Bank Swallow – 13

Barn Swallow – 65

Carolina Wren – 6

Marsh Wren – 1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 7

Gray Catbird – 10

Northern Mockingbird – 3

European Starling – 131

Cedar Waxwing – 6

Common Yellowthroat – 10

American Redstart – 2

Yellow Warbler – 11

Chipping Sparrow – 1

Song Sparrow – 1

Swamp Sparrow – 1

Northern Cardinal – 14

Blue Grosbeak – 6

Indigo Bunting – 8

Orchard Oriole – 6

Baltimore Oriole – 1

Red-winged Blackbird – 76

Brown-headed Cowbird – 1

House Finch – 8

American Goldfinch – 34

SPECIES: 74   INDIVIDUALS: 1656

 

MAMMALS: Red Fox – 2

 

REPTILES: N Water Snake – 1

 

AMPHIBIANS: Fowler’s Toad – 22

 

BUTTERFLIES

E Tiger Swallowtail – 1

Black Swallowtail – 11

Spicebush Swallowtail – 1

Cabbage White – 26

Orange Sulphur – 29

Cloudless Sulphur – 6

Eastern Tailed Blue – 2

Variegated Fritillary – 2

Pearl Crescent – 8

Red Admiral – 1

Painted Lady – 1

Common Buckeye – 11

Red-spotted Purple – 1

Monarch – 25

Silver-spotted Skipper – 5

Common Sootywing – 1

Wild Indigo Duskywing – 2

Least Skipper – 4

 

DRAGONFLIES

Common Green Darner – 3

Twelve-spotted Skimmer – 3

Needham’s Skimmer – 40

Blue Dasher – 2

Eastern Pondhawk – 40

Wandering Glider – 2

Black Saddlebags – 35

Four-spotted Pennant – 4

Halloween Pennant – 1

 

MOTHS: Pandorus Sphinx – 1

 

BEETLES: Seven-spotted Lady Beetle – 2

 

 

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

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