Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 31, 2009
0710 - 1310
Weather: Overcast, 57-63 degrees, S 9K- SSE 13K (drizzle on/off)
Observers: John Dennehy, Kevin Graff

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 294
Mute Swan - 1
Gadwall - 140
American Wigeon - 58
American Black Duck - 19
Mallard - 342
Blue-winged Teal - 1
Northern Shoveler - 207
Northern Pintail - 5
Green-winged Teal - 113
Lesser Scaup - 3
Bufflehead - 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck - 16
Common Loon - 3
Pied-billed Grebe - 55
Double-crested Cormorant - 95
Great Blue Heron - 8
Great Egret - 1
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 1 (juvenile)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (probably, poor view through fog)
American Coot - 105
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 7
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 2
Killdeer - 1
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 43
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 1
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 11
*DUNLIN - 177
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 2
Laughing Gull - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 37
Herring Gull - 40
Great Black-backed Gull - 107
Caspian Tern - 3
Mourning Dove - 18
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 7
American Robin - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 122
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6
Palm Warbler - 1 (western)
Field Sparrow - 4
Savannah Sparrow - 7
Song Sparrow - 48
Swamp Sparrow - 6
White-throated Sparrow - 5
"Slate-colored" Junco - 9
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 215 
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
House Finch - 8
American Goldfinch - 48
SPECIES: 62
TOTAL INDIVIDUALS: 2423

BUTTERFLIES
Monarch - 1

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth - 8 (Woolly Bear caterpillar)
Virginian Tiger Moth - 2 (Yellow Bear caterpillar)



    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD