Hart-Miller Island: 08/22/98
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:31:33 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, August 22, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Bob Ringler.
Observation: 0710-1700
AM: Partly Cloudy, 70 degrees F., S 5K
PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F., S 10K
NOTE: Dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat
Double-crested Cormorant 70
Great Blue Heron 9
Mallard 21
Blue-winged Teal 1
Osprey 14
Northern Harrier 3
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover 5
Killdeer 15
Greater Yellowlegs 9
Lesser Yellowlegs 23
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Spotted Sandpiper 12
Sanderling 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper 92
Western Sandpiper 17
Least Sandpiper 73
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *4
peep sp. 15
Short-billed Dowitcher 9
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE *1
shorebird sp. 14
Laughing Gull 109
Ring-billed Gull 199
Herring Gull 499
Great Black-backed Gull 797
Caspian Tern 142
Common Tern 3
Forster's Tern 1
small tern sp. 4
Least Tern 2
Mourning Dove 46
Chimney Swift 7
empidonax flycatcher sp. 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 7
Purple Martin 7
Bank Swallow 56
Cliff Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 182
American Crow 1
crow sp. 5
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
American Robin 7
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 225
Common Yellowthroat 8
Song Sparrow 14
Swamp Sparrow 2
Bobolink 15
Red-winged Blackbird 42
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 9
BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2 (1 yellow; 1 black female)
Spicebush Swallowtail 1
Cabbage White 20
Clouded Sulphur 3
Orange Sulphur 7
Cloudless Sulphur 17
Little Yellow 1
Gray Hairstreak 2
Eastern Tailed Blue 2
American Lady 1
Red-spotted Purple 6
Monarch 7
Silver-spotted Skipper 1
Sachem 1 (male)
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com