This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Saturday, May 30, 1998. The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Don Burggraf. Observation: 0705-1700 AM: Hazy, 70 degrees F. PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F. Common Loon 8 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 7 Great Blue Heron 48 Canada Goose 6 (2 adult, 4 young) American Black Duck 1 Mallard 126 (66 male, 33 female, 27 young) Red-breasted Merganser 2 (1 male, 1 female) Osprey 14 Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) Black-bellied Plover 16 Semipalmated Plover 243 Killdeer 15 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 11 Willet 1 (Eastern, breeding plumage) Spotted Sandpiper 41 Ruddy Turnstone 4 Red Knot 1 Sanderling 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper 118 Least Sandpiper 117 *CURLEW SANDPIPER *1 (breeding plumage; third island record: 10/19/85 - 1 05/17/92 - 1) Dunlin 33 peep sp. 155 *STILT SANDPIPER *4 (first spring record for island) Short-billed Dowitcher 16 (15 hendersoni adult, 1 1st summer) Laughing Gull 4 (2 adult, 2 1st summer) Ring-billed Gull 54 Herring Gull 480 *ICELAND GULL *1 (1st summer plumage; third island record: 05/31/97 - 1 06/08/97 - 1) *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *2 (2 1st summer) Great Black-backed Gull 182 Caspian Tern 78 (including 6 1st summer) Mourning Dove 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Willow Flycatcher 8 Great Crested Flycatcher 5 Eastern Kingbird 5 Purple Martin 4 (male) Tree Swallow 4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 Bank Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 21 American Crow 1 Fish Crow 4 crow sp. 3 Marsh Wren 13 Gray Catbird 5 European Starling 6 (3 adult, 3 nestlings) Yellow Warbler 18 Magnolia Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler 3 American Redstart 1 (male) Common Yellowthroat 14 Song Sparrow 34 Swamp Sparrow 8 Red-winged Blackbird 80 Common Grackle 3 (Purple) Orchard Oriole 1 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 11 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com