SUMMER SIGHTINGS JUNE 1 - AUGUST 31
By Kevin Graff
We're not getting any reports over the summer! Please continue send in any and all sightings from your yard and/or in city/county between September 1 - November 30 as soon as you can to Kevin Graff at
Not all sightings will fit in the newsletter, but most records you send either in private email or from an MDOSPREY posting will be saved as data recorded for future research to public.
Thank you!
- BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK: 5 seen by many at Charlestown Village between late June & early July
- GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED & GREEN-WINGED TEAL, LESSER & GREATER SCAUP and RUDDY DUCKS continuing over-summer at HMI on 6/1-8/31 (RR, KG+)
- LEAST BITTERN: 1 at HMI on 7/12 (BC, KG)
- GREAT BLUE HERON "Great White Heron" 1 at FMcH on 6/4 (JP, BP)
- LITTLE BLUE HERON: 1 at HMI on 7/19 (KG, JH), 1 on 8/2 (BC, KG+)
- TRICOLORED HERON: 1 at HMI on 8/2, 8/16 & 8/23 (BC, KG+)
- YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON: 8 adults and 12 fledged seen by many at Jones Falls into early July, 1 at FMcH on 7/26 & 8/18 (KEC, JP+)
- CATTLE EGRET: 1 at HMI on 7/26 (BC, KG, JH+)
- GLOSSY IBIS: 1 at HMI on 6/1 (RR), 6 on 7/19, 7/26 & 8/2 (KG, JH+), 3 on 8/23 (BC, KG, JH)
- VIRGINIA RAIL: 1 at HMI on 7/12 (BC, KG)
- WHITE IBIS: 1 at PP on 7/24 by a park staff
- PEREGRINE FALCON: 2 at Key Bridge on 7/23 (MW), 1 at HMI on 7/26 & 8/2 (KG, JH+), 2 on 8/16 (KG, JG)
- AMERICAN COOT: 1 at HMI on 6/1 (RR), 6/7 (KG)
- BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER: 14 at HMI on 8/16 (KG, JG), 5 on 8/23 (BC, KG, JH)
- AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER: 1 at HMI on 8/23 (BC, KG, JH)
- BLACK-NECKED STILT: 1 at HMI on 6/1 (RR), 2 on 6/7 (KG)
- AMERICAN AVOCET: 3 at HMI on 8/16 (KG, JG)
- WILLET: 1 at HMI on 7/12, 8/16 & 8/23 (BC, KG+)
- HUDSONIAN GODWIT: 1 at HMI on 8/16 (KG, JG)
- BAIRD'S SANDPIPER: 1 at HMI on 8/23 (BC, KG, JH)
- DUNLIN: 6 at HMI on 6/1 (RR), 16 on 6/7 (KG), 1 on 7/12 (BC, KG), 2 on 7/19, 1 on 7/26 (KG, JH+), 1 at PMF on 8/14 (BD), 1 at HMI on 8/23 (BC, KG, JH)
- WILSON'S PHALAROPE: 1 at PMF on 8/14 (BD), 1 at HMI on 8/16 (KG, JG)
- BLACK TERN: 1 at HMI on 6/7 & 7/26, 8/18, (KG+), 1 at Key Bridge on 8/21 (MW)
- GULL-BILLED TERN: 1 adult, at HMI on 6/1 (RR)
- COMMON TERN: 1 at HMI on 8/2 (BC, KG+), 1 at FMcH on 8/18 (KEC, JP+)
- YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER: 1 at FMcH on 7/26 (KEC, JP)
- ACADIAN FLYCATCHER: 1 at NPSP on 8/17 (MH)
- GRAY KINGBIRD: 1 see by half dozen at FMcH on 6/9-6/10
- WILLOW FLYCATCHER: 1 at HMI on 6/1 (RR), 2 on 6/7 (KG), 1 on 7/12 (BC, KG), 2 on 7/26 (KG, JH+), 2 at OMM on 7/23 (KEC)
- ALDER FLY-CATCHER: 1 at CVP on 8/31 (KG+)
- YELLOW-THROATED VIREO: 1 at Prettyboy Reservoir on 7/5 (PEN)
- COMMON RAVEN: 2 at OMM on 7/23 (KEC)
- an early RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH show up in private residence in Mt Washington on 8/23
- MARSH WREN: 7 at HMI on 6/1 (RR), 3 on 6/7 (KG), 5 on 7/12 (BC, KG), 4 on 7/19, 5 on 7/26 (KG, JH+), 3 on 8/2 (BC, KG+)
- PRAIRIE WARBLER: 1 at Prettyboy Reservoir on 7/5 (PEN)
- KENTUCKY WARBLER: 1 at Prettyboy Reservoir on 7/5 (PEN)
- YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT: 1 at HMI on 6/7 (KG)
- CANADA WARBLER: 1 at CVP on 8/31 (KG+)
- GRASSHOPPER SPARROW: 1 at HMI on 7/12 (BC, KG)
- SWAMP SPARROW: 5 at HMI on 6/1 (RR), 4 on 6/7 (KG), 8 on 7/12 (BC, KG), 4 on 7/19, 2 on 7/26 (KG, JH+), 4 on 8/2 & 8/16, 1 on 8/23 (BC, KG+)
- out-of-season WHITE-THROATED SPARROW heard calling by former MD, now Iowa resident in Arbutus yard on 6/30
- SUMMER TANAGER: 1 at HMI on 7/12 (BC, KG)
- SCARLET TANAGER: 2 at Prettyboy Reservoir on 7/5 (PEN), 1 at PMF on 8/1 (KEC+)
- BOBOLINK: 2 at FMcH on 8/18 (KEC, JP+)
OBSERVERS: BC-Brad Cernohorsky, BD-Bob Dixon, BP-Ben Poscover, KEC-Keith E Costley, KG-Kevin Graff, JG-Jim Green, JP-Jim Peters, JH-Joe Hanfman, MH-Mike Hudson, MW-Marcia Watson, PEN-Paul E Noell, RR-Robert Ringler, DT-Debbie Terry
LOCATIONS: CVP-Cromwell Valley Park, FMcH-Ft. McHenry, HMI-Hart-Miller Island, OMM-Owings Mill Mall wetlands, PMF-Paper Mill Flats, PP-Patterson Park