This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Sunday, February 1, 1998. The observer was Gene Scarpulla. Observation: 0725-1700 Sunny, 25-45 degrees F. Canada Goose 2 American Black Duck 97 Mallard 358 Northern Pintail 7 Gadwall 18 American Wigeon 2 Redhead 1 (male) Greater Scaup 10,000 Lesser Scaup 1000 Common Goldeneye 69 Bufflehead 36 Common Merganser 10 Red-breasted Merganser 1 (female) Northern Harrier 3 (immature) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) {twice observered Peregrines carrying captured male Red-winged Blackbirds from Hart-Miller Island to the Craighill Upper Range Light} Bonaparte's Gull 22 Ring-billed Gull 147 Herring Gull 512 Great Black-backed Gull 48 Rock Dove 1 Mourning Dove 4 Carolina Chickadee 1 Carolina Wren 1 European Starling 35 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 (Myrtle) Northern Cardinal 1 (male) Eastern Towhee 1 IPSWICH SPARROW 1 Song Sparrow 86 White-throated Sparrow 7 Dark-eyed Junco 12 (Slate-colored) Snow Bunting 88 Red-winged Blackbird 14 (territorial males singing from high perches {see Peregrine note above}) American Goldfinch 37 ________________________________________________________________________ADDITIONAL NOTE: Along the Black Marsh shoreline of Back River, there was a raft of approximately 100,000 scaup sp.