This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for Saturday July 25, 1998. The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Bob Dixon, Jim Stasz, and Ryan Lesh. Observation: 0710-1430 AM: Partly cloudy, 65 degrees F., NE 10K PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F., NE 10K Double-crested Cormorant 27 Great Blue Heron 22 (including 1 juvenile) Green-winged Teal 1 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 54 (including 11 young) *NORTHERN PINTAIL *1 (female) Red-breasted Merganser 1 (male) Osprey 20 (including 5 nestling) Northern Harrier 2 (1 male, 1 female or immature) American Kestrel 2 (1 male, 1 female) Semipalmated Plover 8 Killdeer 18 Greater Yellowlegs 1 (adult) Lesser Yellowlegs 10 (adult) *WILLET *1 (Eastern, juvenile, FALL ARRIVAL) Spotted Sandpiper 29 Semipalmated Sandpiper 68 (adult) Least Sandpiper 31 (30 adult, 1 juvenile) peep sp. 19 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 (adult) *CURLEW SANDPIPER *1 (BREEDING PLUMAGE) *STILT SANDPIPER *4 (adult, FALL ARRIVAL) Short-billed Dowitcher 6 (adult) Laughing Gull 11 Ring-billed Gull 840 (including 2 juvenile) Herring Gull 157 Great Black-backed Gull 445 Caspian Tern 135 Common Tern 1 (fly by) Mourning Dove 5 Chimney Swift 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Willow Flycatcher 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 4 Tree Swallow 3 Bank Swallow 80 Barn Swallow 116 American Crow 2 crow sp. 4 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 1 Marsh Wren 4 Gray Catbird 3 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 72 Yellow Warbler 3 Common Yellowthroat 4 Blue Grosbeak 2 Song Sparrow 35 (including 1 juvenile being fed) Swamp Sparrow 5 Red-winged Blackbird 95 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 6 BUTTERFLIES Spicebush Swallowtail Cabbage White Orange Sulphur cloudywing sp. Broad-winged Skipper DRAGONFLIES Green Darner Wandering Glider Spot-winged Glider Seaside Dragonlet Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com