Hart-Miller Island: 07/18/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:54:37 -0400


This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
July 18, 1998.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.

Observation: 0720-1645
             AM: Partly Sunny, 70 degrees F., NW 20K - W 10K
             PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F., 0 - N 5K - E 10K - SE 10K

 Double-crested Cormorant        6
 Great Blue Heron                12
 Canada Goose                    6
 Mallard                         68 (including 27 young)
 Red-breasted Merganser          1 (male)
 Osprey                          22 (including 8 nestling)
 Red-tailed Hawk                 1 (adult)
 Semipalmated Plover             1
 Killdeer                        56 (including 2 juvenile)
 Lesser Yellowlegs               18 (adult)
 Spotted Sandpiper               37 (including 13 juvenile)
 Semipalmated Sandpiper          202 (adult)
 Western Sandpiper               8 (adult)
*LEAST SANDPIPER                *61 (60 adult, 1 JUVENILE ARRIVAL)
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER         *1 (adult, FALL ARRIVAL,
                                    PRECEDES YELLOW BOOK ARRIVAL DATE)
 Pectoral Sandpiper              1 (adult)
*DUNLIN                         *1 (JUVENILE ARRIVAL)
 Short-billed Dowitcher          2 (adult hendersoni)
 Laughing Gull                   8 (6 adult summer, 1 2nd-summer)
*RING-BILLED GULL               *983 (INCLUDING 1 JUVENILE ARRIVAL)
 Herring Gull                    271
 Lesser Black-backed Gull        1 (2nd-summer)
 Great Black-backed Gull         417
 Caspian Tern                    139
 Mourning Dove                   5 (including 1 juvenile)
 Willow Flycatcher               2
 Great Creasted Flycatcher       1
 Eastern Kingbird                5
 Tree Swallow                    5
 Bank Swallow                    11
 Barn Swallow                    135
 Fish Crow                       2
 Carolina Wren                   1
 House Wren                      2
 Marsh Wren                      5
 Gray Catbird                    2
 European Starling               60
 Yellow Warbler                  3
 Common Yellowthroat             10
 Song Sparrow                    53
 Swamp Sparrow                   4
 Red-winged Blackbird            93
 American Goldfinch              3

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com