Hart-Miller Island: 06/06/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 07 Jun 1998 20:31:03 -0400


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