Hart-Miller Island: 05/02/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 03 May 1998 09:34:22 -0400 

This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Saturday, May 2, 1998.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.

Observation: 0710-1705
             AM: Cloudy, 50 degrees F., light showers, SE 15K
             PM: Partly cloudy, 70 degrees F., SW 15K

Highlight: 15 shorebird species (including AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER)
             
 Red-throated Loon               1 (winter plumage)
 Common Loon                     22 (1 winter plumage)                  
                                    (21 flyover, breeding plumage)
 Double-crested Cormorant        31
 Great Blue Heron                34
*GREAT EGRET                    *2 (flyover, heading north)
*GLOSSY IBIS                    *1 (flyover, heading south)
 Mute Swan                       10
 Canada Goose                    8
 American Black Duck             2
 Mallard                         156 (107 male, 49 female)
 Blue-winged Teal                4 (2 male, 2 female)
 Northern Shoveler               2 (1 male, 1 female)
 Lesser Scaup                    2 (1 male, 1 female)
 Ruddy Duck                      6 (4 male, 2 female)
 Osprey                          16
 Northern Harrier                1 (immature)
 Peregrine Falcon                1 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER           *10
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER            *9 (arrival)
 Killdeer                        18
*AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER         *1 (4th island record: 05/31/87 - 1
                                                       06/29/96 - 2
                                                       05/02/98 - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS             *5 
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS              *149
*WILLET                         *1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER              *5 (arrival)
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER         *7 (arrival)
*WESTERN SANDPIPER              *2
*LEAST SANDPIPER                *495
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER         *1 (arrival)
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER             *1
*DUNLIN                         *18
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER         *3 (hendersoni, arrival)
 Ring-billed Gull                2
 Herring Gull                    203
 Great Black-backed Gull         68
 Caspian Tern                    442
*YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO           *1 (arrival)
*RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD      *1 (male, arrival)
 Downy Woodpecker                1
 Eastern Kingbird                5
 Tree Swallow                    20
 Northern Rough-winged Swallow   4
 Barn Swallow                    45
 Blue Jay                        48
 American Crow                   2
 Fish Crow                       17
 Carolina Wren                   1
 House Wren                      5
*MARSH WREN                     *7 (arrival)
 American Robin                  5
 Gray Catbird                    9
 Brown Thrasher                  1
 American Pipit                  1 
 European Starling               9
*YELLOW WARBLER                 *9 (arrival)
 Common Yellowthroat             18
 Northern Cardinal               1
 Eastern Towhee                  3
 Savannah Sparrow                4 
 Song Sparrow                    69
 Swamp Sparrow                   7
 Red-winged Blackbird            135
 Common Grackle                  6 (Purple)
 Brown-headed Cowbird            9
*ORCHARD ORIOLE                 *1 (male, arrival)
 House Finch                     1
 American Goldfinch              10

REPTILES
 Northern Water Snake            1

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com