Hart-Miller Island, 09/23/16
Kevin Graff
09/23/16 – 710am-230pm
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, B Co., MD
WEATHER: PC/Fair, 62-82 degrees, calm- ESE 6K
Canada Goose – 144
Wood Duck – 8
Gadwall – 3
EURASIAN WIGEON – 1
American Wigeon – 30
American Black Duck – 16
Mallard – 202
Blue-winged Teal – 16
Northern Shoveler – 74
Northern Pintail – 9
Green-winged Teal – 98
Lesser Scaup – 2
Ruddy Duck – 2 (drakes)
Pied-billed Grebe – 12
Double-crested Cormorant – 41
Great Blue Heron – 8
Great Egret – 7
Snowy Egret – 2
Osprey – 2
Bald Eagle – 4
Northern Harrier – 1
Peregrine Falcon – 1
COMMON GALLINULE – 1
American Coot – 2
Black-bellied Plover – 6
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER – 2
Semipalmated Plover – 6
Killdeer – 3
Greater Yellowlegs – 6
Lesser Yellowlegs – 13
Spotted Sandpiper – 1
SANDERLING – 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper – 3
Least Sandpiper – 57
STILT SANDPIPER – 4
Short-billed Dowitcher – 4
Laughing Gull – 30
Ring-billed Gull – 37
Herring Gull – 49
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL – 3 (adult, 1st W, 3rd W)
Great Black-backed Gull – 336
Caspian Tern – 353
Mourning Dove – 10
Downy Woodpecker – 1
Northern Flicker – 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee – 1
Eastern Phoebe – 4
Red-eyed Vireo – 1
American Crow – 1
Tree Swallow – 4
Carolina Wren – 4
Gray Catbird – 5
European Starling – 145
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER – 1
(female) new island species #295.
Northern Parula – 4
Yellow Warbler – 1 (female)
Magnolia Warbler – 2
American Redstart – 4
Common Yellowthroat – 11
Chestnut-sided Warbler – 1
Palm Warbler – 1 (western)
Savannah Sparrow – 1
Scarlet Tanager – 1 (female flyby over edge of North Cell)
Northern Cardinal – 6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak – 1
Indigo Bunting – 1
Bobolink – 3
Red-winged Blackbird – 188
Brown-headed Cowbird – 4
American Goldfinch – 22
SPECIES: 70 INDIVIDUALS: 2030
MAMMALS: Red Fox – 1
REPTILES: E Painted Turtle – 1
AMPHIBIANS
Fowler’s Toad – 6
Green Tree Frog – 14 (all in one small area)
BUTTERFLIES:
E Tiger Swallowtail – 1
Black Swallowtail – 4
Cabbage White – 10
Orange Sulphur – 15
Cloudless Sulphur – 11
Gray Hairstreak – 1
Eastern Tailed Blue – 3
Variegated Fritillary – 1
Pearl Crescent – 12
Common Buckeye – 22
Monarch – 46
Least Skipper – 1
DRAGONFLIES:
C Green Darner – 2
Needham's Skimmer - 6
Eastern Amberwing - 1
Eastern Pondhawk – 8
Wandering Glider - 2
Black Saddlebags – 8
Autumn Meadowhawk - 1
INSECTS
Horned Passalus – 1
Big Dipper Firefly (eastern firefly) – 1
Multicolored Asian Beetle – 3
Convergent Lady Beetle – 2
Spotted Cucumber Beetle – 1
Fork-tailed Bush Katydid – 1
Broad-winged Katydid – 1
Henry’s Marsh Moth – 3 (caterpillar)
Salt Marsh Caterpillar – 6
Virginian Tiger Moth – 10 (Yellow Bear)
Virgin Tiger Moth – 1 (caterpillar)
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD