Hart-Miller Island : 07/11/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:27:08 -0400


This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, July 11, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Mike Borges.

Observation: 0715-1645
             AM: Sunny, 60 degrees F., NW 15K
             PM: Sunny, 85 degrees F., NW 15K

 Double-crested Cormorant        24
 Great Blue Heron                37
 Canada Goose                    10 (adult)
 Mallard                         66
 Osprey                          19 (12 adult, 7 nestling)
 Red-tailed Hawk                 1 (adult)
 American Kestrel                1 (male)
 Killdeer                        48 (1ncluding 1 juvenile)
 Lesser Yellowlegs               10 (adult)
 Spotted Sandpiper               22 (including 6 juvenile)
 Semipalmated Sandpiper          4 (adult)
*WESTERN SANDPIPER              *5 (adult, fall arrival)
 Least Sandpiper                 60 (adult)
 Pectoral Sandpiper              2 (adult)
*DUNLIN                         *1 (adult, fall arrival)
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER         *3 (adult hendersoni, fall arrival)
 Laughing Gull                   1 (2nd-summer)
 Ring-billed Gull                546
 Herring Gull                    245
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL       *5 (4 1st-summer, 1 3rd-summer)
 Great Black-backed Gull         430
 Caspian Tern                    88
 Mourning Dove                   12
 Yellow-billed Cuckoo            1
 Willow Flycatcher               1
 Eastern Kingbird                4
 Tree Swallow                    11
 Bank Swallow                    25
 Barn Swallow                    190
 Fish Crow                       2
 crow sp.                        2
 House Wren                      3
 Marsh Wren                      9
 American Robin                  1
 Gray Catbird                    2
 European Starling               45
 Yellow Warbler                  3
 Common Yellowthroat             12
 Song Sparrow                    58
 Swamp Sparrow                   4
*BOBOLINK                       *2 (fall arrival)
 Red-winged Blackbird            124
 House Finch                     3
 American Goldfinch              6

CORRIGENDUM: Hart-Miller Island Report: 07/06/98
 Gray Catbird                    2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile)

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com