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