Hart-Miller Island: 05/23/98
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 25 May 1998 10:10:04 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Saturday, May 23, 1998.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.
Observation: 0705-1655
AM: Cloudy, 50 degrees F., N 5K to E 5K
PM: Sunny, 75 degrees F., S 15K
Common Loon 1 (breeding)
Double-crested Cormorant 21
Great Blue Heron 75
Canada Goose 8 (4 adult, 4 young)
Green-winged Teal 2 (male)
American Black Duck 1 (male)
Mallard 143 (76 male, 33 female, 34 young)
Blue-winged Teal 1 (male)
Gadwall 1 (male)
Lesser Scaup 1 (male)
scaup sp. 2 (male)
Red-breasted Merganser 3 (1 male, 2 female)
Osprey 17
Peregrine Falcon 2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
Black-bellied Plover 33
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *3 (arrival)
Semipalmated Plover 121
Killdeer 17
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 26
Willet 1 (Eastern)
Spotted Sandpiper 29
*WHIMBREL *242 (hudsonicus, record high, arrival)
Ruddy Turnstone 7
*RED KNOT *4 (arrival)
*SANDERLING *2 (arrival)
Semipalmated Sandpiper 43
Least Sandpiper 286
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
*DUNLIN *2316 (record high)
Short-billed Dowitcher 17 (hendersoni)
Laughing Gull 3
Ring-billed Gull 12
Herring Gull 217
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *3 (2 2nd summer,
1 2nd summer to 3rd winter)
Great Black-backed Gull 105
Caspian Tern 338 (including 11 1st summer)
*ROYAL TERN *2 (breeding, arrival)
Forster's Tern 1
Mourning Dove 1
Chimney Swift 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
*WILLOW FLYCATCHER *2 (arrival)
Eastern Kingbird 4
Tree Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 26
American Crow 5
Fish Crow 3
House Wren 3
Marsh Wren 10
Gray Catbird 2
Cedar Waxwing 2
European Starling 3
Yellow Warbler 18
Common Yellowthroat 18
Northern Cardinal 1
Song Sparrow 55
Swamp Sparrow 6
Red-winged Blackbird 113
Common Grackle 4 (Purple)
Orchard Oriole 1 (1st spring male)
House Finch 2 (male, female)
American Goldfinch 10
CORRIGENDUM: Hart-Miller Island Report: 05/16/98
Peregrine Falcon 3 (2 adult, 1 immature)
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com