This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for Saturday, September 5, 1998. The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Matt Hafner. Observation: 0710-1650 AM: Sunny, 65 degrees F., NW 15K PM: Sunny, 85 degrees F., NW 15K NOTE: Dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat Double-crested Cormorant 35 Great Blue Heron 8 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 (1 year old) American Black Duck 3 Mallard 16 Northern Shoveler 2 Osprey 14 Northern Harrier 5 (1 male, 1 female, 3 juvenile) American Kestrel 9 (3 male, 3 female, 3 unknown) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) Black-bellied Plover 1 Semipalmated Plover 4 Killdeer 6 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 5 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Spotted Sandpiper 6 Sanderling 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper 20 Western Sandpiper 2 Least Sandpiper 36 peep sp. 31 (including 4 Semi/Western sp.) Pectoral Sandpiper 3 Stilt Sandpiper 1 Buff-breasted Sandpiper 1 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 (juvenile) Laughing Gull 10 Ring-billed Gull 107 Herring Gull 596 Great Black-backed Gull 697 Caspian Tern 113 *ROYAL TERN *2 Mourning Dove 8 Chimney Swift 8 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 empidonax flycatcher sp. 2 Eastern Kingbird 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 Bank Swallow 13 Cliff Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 130 crow sp. 8 Carolina Wren 4 Gray Catbird 4 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 19 White-eyed Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 *PALM WARBLER *3 (1 Yellow, 2 Western; FALL ARRIVAL) *SAVANNAH SPARROW *8 (FALL ARRIVAL) Song Sparrow 5 Bobolink 4 Red-winged Blackbird 9 Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 9 BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 30 Clouded Sulphur 6 Orange Sulphur 9 Cloudless Sulphur 34 Pearl Crescent 1 Red-spotted Purple 2 Monarch 21 skipper sp. 35 CORRIGENDUM - 08/29/98 White-rumped Sandpiper 2 Rock Dove 1 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com