Hart-Miller Island: 04/18/98
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 26 Apr 1998 17:58:01 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Saturday, April 18, 1998.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.
Observation: 0715-1340
AM: Cloudy, 45 degrees F., NW 10K
PM: Partly sunny, 60 degrees F., NW 5K
Common Loon 6 (5 breeding, 1 winter)
Double-crested Cormorant 14
Great Blue Heron 13
Canada Goose 12
Green-winged Teal 2 (1 male, 1 female)
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 83
Blue-winged Teal 16 (arrival)
Greater Scaup 4 (male)
Lesser Scaup 1 (male)
Ruddy Duck 31
Osprey 15
Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult)
Killdeer 24
*WILLET *1 (arrival; too distant for positive
subspecies ID; gave the two note
"plaintive" or "cur-lew"call)
Least Sandpiper 62
Dunlin 15
Bonaparte's Gull 7
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 182
Great Black-backed Gull 31
Caspian Tern 199
Forster's Tern 1
Mourning Dove 1
Great Horned Owl 1
Northern Flicker 1 (Yellow-shafted)
Tree Swallow 14
Barn Swallow 23
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 11
Carolina Wren 1
American Robin 2
European Starling 16
Common Yellowthroat 4 (arrival)
Northern Cardinal 3
Eastern Towhee 1
Song Sparrow 55
Swamp Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 80
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
American Goldfinch 7
AMPHIBIANS
Spring Peeper several
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com