This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Saturday, June 6, 1998. The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Lisa Franke. Observation: 0710-1650 AM: Cloudy, 50 degrees F., NW 15K PM: Sunny, 75 degrees F., W 20K Double-crested Cormorant 6 Great Blue Heron 37 Canada Goose 12 (4 adult, 8 young) American Black Duck 2 (1 male, 1 female) Mallard 169 (64 male, 45 female, 60 young) Osprey 12 Peregrine Falcon 1 (immature) Semipalmated Plover 59 Killdeer 21 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Spotted Sandpiper 20 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Red Knot 6 Sanderling 4 Semipalmated Sandpiper 193 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *1 (breeding plumage) Least Sandpiper 11 White-rumped Sandpiper 5 *CURLEW SANDPIPER *1 (breeding plumage) Dunlin 36 (including 1 non-breeding plumage) *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *2 (male, breeding plumage) *RED-NECKED PHALAROPE *3 (2 male, 1 female, breeding plumage) Ring-billed Gull 140 Herring Gull 452 *ICELAND GULL *1 (1st-summer plumage) *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (1st-summer plumage) Great Black-backed Gull 195 Caspian Tern 91 (including 5 1st-summer plumage) Common Tern 1 Least Tern 3 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Willow Flycatcher 6 Eastern Kingbird 2 Purple Martin 1 (female) Tree Swallow 6 Bank Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 78 American Crow 1 Fish Crow 4 crow sp. 5 House Wren 5 Marsh Wren 17 European Starling 4 Yellow Warbler 16 Common Yellowthroat 11 Northern Cardinal 3 Eastern Towhee 1 Savannah Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 30 Swamp Sparrow 5 Red-winged Blackbird 68 Common Grackle 8 (Purple) House Finch 7 American Goldfinch 7 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com