Hart-Miller Island: 11/09/97

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 22:00:19 -0500


This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Sunday, November 9, 1997.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.

Observation: 0715-1550
             drizzle/light showers, 45-55 degrees F., Winds N 15K


Common Loon                     8
Horned Grebe                    2 (arrival)
Double-crested Cormorant        11
Great Blue Heron                6
American Black Duck             17
Mallard                         249
Lesser Scaup                    5 (1 male, 4 female)
Bufflehead                      10 (2 adult male, 1 first winter male,
                                    7 female)
Ruddy Duck                      8 (6 male, 2 female)
Northern Harrier                8 (2 male, 4 female, 2 juvenile)
Sharp-shinned Hawk              1 (immature)
Cooper's Hawk                   1 (immature)
Red-tailed Hawk                 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon                2 (adult)
Killdeer                        1
Sanderling                      4
Dunlin                          12
Laughing Gull                   21
Ring-billed Gull                36
Herring Gull                    645
Great Black-backed Gull         107
Mourning Dove                   79
Downy Woodpecker                2
Northern Flicker                1 (Yellow-shafted)
American Crow                   2
Carolina Chickadee              2
Tufted Titmouse                 4
Carolina Wren                   2
Winter Wren                     1
American Pipit                  7
European Starling               120
Yellow-rumped Warbler           6 (Myrtle)
Northern Cardinal               2
Eastern Towhee                  4
Chipping Sparrow                2
Field Sparrow                   1
Savannah Sparrow                4
Fox Sparrow                     1 (arrival)
Song Sparrow                    55
Swamp Sparrow                   7
White-throated Sparrow          17
Dark-eyed Junco                 111 (Slate-colored)
Snow Bunting                    20
Red-winged Blackbird            33
Eastern Meadowlark              1
American Goldfinch              28