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