Hart-Miller Island: 08/08/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:21:34 -0400


This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, August 8, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Don Burggraf.

Observation: 0710-1650
             AM: Cloudy, 65 degrees F., NE 15K
             PM: Sunny, 85 degrees F., NE 15K
             NOTE: Very dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat

 Double-crested Cormorant        14
 Great Blue Heron                10
 Mallard                         22 (including 4 young)
 Osprey                          19
 Northern Harrier                2
 American Kestrel                1 (female)
 Peregrine Falcon                1 (adult)
 Semipalmated Plover             2
 Killdeer                        37
 Lesser Yellowlegs               7
 Spotted Sandpiper               19
 Semipalmated Sandpiper          64
 Western Sandpiper               10
 Least Sandpiper                 46
 peep sp.                        23
 Laughing Gull                   81
 Ring-billed Gull                619
 Herring Gull                    340
 Lesser Black-backed Gull        2 (1st-summer to 2nd-winter)
 Great Black-backed Gull         646
 Caspian Tern                    160
 Common Tern                     4
 Forster's Tern                  2
 small tern sp.                  3
 Mourning Dove                   14
 Ruby-throated Hummingbird       1
 Great Crested Flycatcher        3
 Eastern Kingbird                7
 Purple Martin                   1
 Bank Swallow                    8
 Barn Swallow                    40
 crow sp.                        2
 Carolina Wren                   2
 House Wren                      2
 Gray Catbird                    1
 European Starling               137
 Yellow Warbler                  2
 Common Yellowthroat             1
 Indigo Bunting                  2
 Song Sparrow                    29
 Swamp Sparrow                   5
 Red-winged Blackbird            159
 House Finch                     4
 American Goldfinch              14

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                         1

BUTTERFLIES
 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
 Cabbage White
 Clouded Sulphur
 hairstreak sp.
 Monarch
 skipper sp.

DRAGONFLIES
 Seaside Dragonlet
 Wandering Glider
 Black-mantled Glider

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com