This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for Saturday, August 1, 1998. The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Bob Ringler, George Jett, and Leo Weigant. Observation: 0715-1500 AM: Sunny, 65 degrees F., N 20K - NE 20K PM: Sunny, 85 degrees F., NE 10K NOTE: 2.32" rainfall 07/30/98-07/31/98 (provided good shorebird habitat) Double-crested Cormorant 34 Great Blue Heron 14 Canada Goose 6 American Black Duck 1 Mallard 96 (including 5 young) Osprey 14 (including 6 juvenile) Northern Harrier 2 (1 immature male, 1 female or immature) Semipalmated Plover 55 Killdeer 25 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 58 (including 1 juvenile) *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *1 (FALL ARRIVAL) Spotted Sandpiper 33 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *1 (FALL ARRIVAL) *SANDERLING *2 (FALL ARRIVAL) Semipalmated Sandpiper 924 Western Sandpiper 86 Least Sandpiper 34 (including 3 juvenile) peep sp. 46 Pectoral Sandpiper 5 Stilt Sandpiper 3 Short-billed Dowitcher 4 (including 2 juvenile) Laughing Gull 36 Ring-billed Gull 664 Herring Gull 168 (including 1 juvenile) Great Black-backed Gull 473 Caspian Tern 154 (1ncluding 1 juvenile) Common Tern 5 (including 2 juvenile) Forster's Tern 2 tern sp. (Common/Forster's) 3 (adult) Least Tern 5 Mourning Dove 4 Chimney Swift 2 Eastern Kingbird 10 Purple Martin 3 Tree Swallow 1 Bank Swallow 20 Barn Swallow 95 Carolina Wren 1 Gray Catbird 2 European Starling 14 Yellow Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 4 Song Sparrow 45 Swamp Sparrow 1 Red-winged Blackbird 139 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 2 BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White Clouded Sulphur (female) Orange Sulphur Gray Hairstreak American Snout Monarch Broad-winged Skipper DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner Seaside Dragonlet Wandering Glider Black Saddlebags bluet sp. Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com