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