Hart-Miller Island: 05/09/98
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 11 May 1998 21:23:47 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Saturday, May 9, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Ralph Cullison, Don Burggraf, and
Clark Howells.
Observation: 0715-1700
AM: Cloudy, 55 degrees F., light showers, N 25K
PM: Cloudy, 65 degrees F., light showers, NW 35K
Common Loon 10 (2 transitional plumage)
(8 flyover, breeding plumage)
Double-crested Cormorant 38
Great Blue Heron 32
Great Egret 1 (flyover, heading north)
Canada Goose 6
American Black Duck 3
Mallard 110 (including 5 young)
Blue-winged Teal 3 (2 male, 1 female)
Northern Shoveler 1 (female)
Gadwall 2 (1 male, 1 female)
American Wigeon 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Lesser Scaup 2 (male)
Red-breasted Merganser 1 (male)
Osprey 10
Northern Harrier 1 (female)
Red-tailed Hawk 1 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult)
Black-bellied Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover 104
Killdeer 22
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 490
Spotted Sandpiper 9
Ruddy Turnstone 1 (arrival)
Semipalmated Sandpiper 38
Least Sandpiper 755
White-rumped Sandpiper 3
Dunlin 130
peep sp. 277
Short-billed Dowitcher 30
Common Snipe 1
Laughing Gull 3
Bonaparte's Gull 2 (1st summer)
Ring-billed Gull 4
Herring Gull 275
Great Black-backed Gull 75
Caspian Tern 362
Mourning Dove 1
Great Horned Owl 1
Chimney Swift 27 (arrival)
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Kingbird 2
Purple Martin 1 (male, arrival)
Tree Swallow 37
Bank Swallow 80 (arrival)
Barn Swallow 90
Fish Crow 4
crow sp. 3
Carolina Chickadee 2
House Wren 2
Marsh Wren 9
American Robin 1
Gray Catbird 9
European Starling 12
Yellow Warbler 18
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 (Myrtle)
Common Yellowthroat 14
Eastern Towhee 3
Song Sparrow 61
Swamp Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 2
Red-winged Blackbird 90
Common Grackle 1 (Purple)
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 3
MAMMALS
Muskrat 1
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com