Hart-Miller Island: 08/29/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:12:53 -0400


This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, August 29, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Bob Dixon.

Observation: 0715-1655
             AM: Sunny, 80 degrees F., SE 5K
             EARLY PM: Mostly Sunny, 95 degrees F., SE 15K
             LATE PM: Mostly Cloudy, 90 degrees F., NW 15K
             NOTE: Dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat

 Double-crested Cormorant        47
 Great Blue Heron                7
 Green-winged Teal               3
 American Black Duck             1
 Mallard                         34
 Osprey                          12
 Northern Harrier                8 (4 female, 4 juvenile)
 Cooper's Hawk                   1
 American Kestrel                3 (1 male, 2 female)
 Peregrine Falcon                2 (1 adult, 1 unknown)
 Semipalmated Plover             2
 Killdeer                        25
 Greater Yellowlegs              8
 Lesser Yellowlegs               2
 Spotted Sandpiper               10
 Semipalmated Sandpiper          112
 Western Sandpiper               38
 Least Sandpiper                 79
 White-rumped Sandpiper          1
 peep sp.                        10 (including 5 Semi/Western sp.)
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER        *1 (FALL ARRIVAL)
 Short-billed Dowitcher          10
 shorebird sp.                   2
 Laughing Gull                   42
 Ring-billed Gull                245
 Herring Gull                    509
 Lesser Black-backed Gull        1 (first-summer)
 Great Black-backed Gull         1071
 Caspian Tern                    94
 Forster's Tern                  2
 Mourning Dove                   28
 Chimney Swift                   2
 Belted Kingfisher               1
 Downy Woodpecker                2
 Eastern Kingbird                5
 Purple Martin                   2
 Northern Rough-winged Swallow   1
 Bank Swallow                    2
 Barn Swallow                    69
 Fish Crow                       1
 crow sp.                        8
 Carolina Wren                   2
 Marsh Wren                      1 (juvenile)
 American Robin                  1
 Gray Catbird                    5
 Northern Mockingbird            1
 European Starling               237
 White-eyed Vireo                1
 Common Yellowthroat             2
 Song Sparrow                    10
 Bobolink                        19
 Red-winged Blackbird            9
 Brown-headed Cowbird            1
 American Goldfinch              10

BUTTERFLIES
 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail       1 (yellow)
 Cabbage White                   14
 Clouded Sulphur                 10
 Orange Sulphur                  2
 Cloudless Sulphur               26
 Pearl Crescent                  1
 Variegated Fritillary           1
 Eastern Comma                   1
 Red-spotted Purple              4
 Common Buckeye                  1
 Monarch                         5
 Common Checkered Skipper        1
 skipper sp.                     6

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com