This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Friday, April 24, 1998. The observer was Gene Scarpulla. Observation: 0715-1700 AM: Partly sunny, 50 degrees F., W 15K PM: Sunny, 75 degrees F., SW 15K Common Loon 4 (breeding plumage) Horned Grebe 2 (transitional plumage) Double-crested Cormorant 10 Great Blue Heron 6 *CATTLE EGRET *3 (flyby) Canada Goose 1 Mallard 69 Blue-winged Teal 8 (3 male, 5 female) Osprey 16 Northern Harrier 1 (immature) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) Virginia Rail 3 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *2 (arrival; transitional plumage) Killdeer 25 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *6 (arrival) *WESTERN SANDPIPER *4 (arrival precedes "Yellow Book" arrival date; breeding plumage) Least Sandpiper 67 Dunlin 8 Laughing Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 3 Herring Gull 112 Great Black-backed Gull 9 Caspian Tern 441 Mourning Dove 2 Eastern Kingbird 1 (arrival) Tree Swallow 16 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 (arrival) Barn Swallow 9 Blue Jay 1 Fish Crow 7 crow sp. 7 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 2 (arrival) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 (arrival) American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 2 (arrival) Brown Thrasher 1 (arrival) European Starling 12 Common Yellowthroat 7 Northern Cardinal 1 Eastern Towhee 4 Field Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 60 Swamp Sparrow 5 White-throated Sparrow 12 Red-winged Blackbird 67 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 American Goldfinch 4 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com