Observations at Hart-Miller Island   
August 16, 2010
710am-305pm
Weather: MC/Fair, 75-85 degrees, SE 5K- SE 9K
Observers: Kevin Graff, Jim Green


*SPECIES OF NOTES*

Canada Goose - 122
Wood Duck - 15
*AMERICAN WIGEON - 4
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 65
Blue-winged Teal - 2
Ruddy Duck - 8
Pied-billed Grebe - 62 (2 active nests)
Double-crested Cormorant - 27
Great Blue Heron - 24
Great Egret - 25
Snowy Egret - 8
*TRICOLORED HERON - 1
Black-crowned Night Heron - 3 (immatures)
Osprey - 6
Bald Eagle - 1
American Kestrel - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adults)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 14
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 38
Killdeer - 8
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 3
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 4
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*WILLET - 1 (western)
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 40
*HUDSONIAN GODWIT - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 294
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 1
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 5
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 5 (atlantic)
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1
Laughing Gull - 27
Ring-billed Gull - 32
Herring Gull - 10
Great Black-backed Gull - 76
Least Tern - 1
*BLACK TERN - 1
Caspian Tern - 240
Forster's Tern - 11
Mourning Dove - 12
Chimney Swift - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Purple Martin - 3
Tree Swallow - 22
Bank Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 33
Carolina Chickadee - 2
Gray Catbird - 13
European Starling - 45
Yellow Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 8
Song Sparrow - 5
Swamp Sparrow - 4
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 66
Brown-headed Cowbird - 10
Orchard Oriole - 6
House Finch - 9
American Goldfinch - 16
SPECIES: 67
INDIVIDUALS: 1466

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 12
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 5
Checkered White - 1
Orange Sulphur - 16
Little Yellow - 2
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Eastern Tailed BLue - 6
Summer Azure - 1
Variegated Fritillery - 1
Pearl Crescent - 6
Common Buckeye - 45
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Monarch - 28
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Least Skipper - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 2
Darner sp - 1 (likely Shadow)
Eastern Pondhawk - 18
Needham's Skimmer - 35
Blue Dasher - 1
Black Saddlebags - 18
Wandering Glider - 2


**Shorebirds # seems dropping and water level also dropping result in fewer birds**


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD