Hart-Miller Island: 06/14/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 21:54:42 -0400


This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for Sunday,
June 14, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Barry Cooper.

Observation: 0715-1540
             AM: Sunny, 70 degrees F., NW 15K
             PM: Mostly Sunny, 85 degrees F., NW 10K

 Double-crested Cormorant        5
 Great Blue Heron                22
 Black-crowned Night-Heron       1 (adult)
 Canada Goose                    20 (adult)
 American Black Duck             11
 Mallard                         357 (203 male, 127 female, 27 young)
 American Wigeon                 1 (male)
 Osprey                          12 (including 1 nestling)
 Northern Harrier                3 (including 1 immature)
 Peregrine Falcon                1 (adult)
 Black-bellied Plover            1
 Killdeer                        30
 Spotted Sandpiper               18
 Semipalmated Sandpiper          4
 Least Sandpiper                 1
 Dunlin                          1
 Short-billed Dowitcher          1 (griseus)
 Ring-billed Gull                266
 Herring Gull                    438
 Lesser Black-backed Gull        1 (3rd-summer plumage)
 Great Black-backed Gull         307
 Caspian Tern                    151 (including 6 1st-summer plumage)
 Least Tern                      1
 Mourning Dove                   1
 Willow Flycatcher               6
 Great Crested Flycatcher        1
 Eastern Kingbird                1
 Purple Martin                   6 (including 1 1st-spring male)
 Tree Swallow                    4
 Barn Swallow                    20
 American Crow                   1
 Fish Crow                       5
 House Wren                      2
 Marsh Wren                      14
 American Robin                  1
 Gray Catbird                    2
 European Starling               2
 Yellow Warbler                  11
 Common Yellowthroat             15
 Northern Cardinal               2
 Song Sparrow                    35
 Swamp Sparrow                   4
 Red-winged Blackbird            106
 Orchard Oriole                  1
 House Finch                     2
 American Goldfinch              6

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com