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