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