Hart-Miller Island: 11/02/97

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 03 Nov 1997 00:07:43 -0500


This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Sunday, November 2, 1997. 
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.

Observation: 0800-1700
             Early AM: moderate rain, 55 degrees F., Winds SE 20K
             Late AM : heavy rain, 60 degrees F., Winds W 20K
             PM      : mostly sunny, 65 degrees F., Winds NW 15K


Common Loon                     1
Double-crested Cormorant        32
Great Blue Heron                2
Canada Goose                    5 (flyover)
American Black Duck             14 (8 male, 6 female)
Mallard                         88 (47 male, 41 female)
Ring-necked Duck                1 (male, arrival)
Lesser Scaup                    1 (female, arrival)
Bufflehead                      10 (2 adult male, 1 first winter male,
                                    7 female)
Ruddy Duck                      1 (female)
Bald Eagle                      1 (immature)
Cooper's Hawk                   1 (immature)
Red-tailed Hawk                 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon                1 (adult)
Killdeer                        7
Greater Yellowlegs              2
Dunlin                          21
Laughing Gull                   7
Bonaparte's Gull                1 (adult winter)
Ring-billed Gull                19
Herring Gull                    328
Great Black-backed Gull         150
Mourning Dove                   13
Downy Woodpecker                1
Tufted Titmouse                 1
American Pipit                  6
European Starling               305
Yellow-rumped Warbler           4 (Myrtle)
Chipping Sparrow                1
Field Sparrow                   2
VESPER SPARROW                  2 (arrival)
Savannah Sparrow                14
Song Sparrow                    78
Swamp Sparrow                   3
White-throated Sparrow          3
sparrow sp.                     21
Dark-eyed Junco                 5 (Slate-colored)
SNOW BUNTING                    1 (male, arrival)
Red-winged Blackbird            18
blackbird sp.                   65
House Finch                     4
American Goldfinch              6