This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for Saturday, September 12, 1998. The observer was Gene Scarpulla. Observation: 0710-1655 AM: Partly cloudy, 70 degrees F., calm Noon: Sunny, 80 degrees F., SW 15K PM: Sunny, 95 degrees F., W 15K NOTE: Dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat Double-crested Cormorant 62 Great Blue Heron 4 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 31 Blue-winged Teal 1 Northern Shoveler 2 Osprey 7 Northern Harrier 4 (juvenile) Cooper's Hawk 1 Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) Black-bellied Plover 7 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *21 (FALL ARRIVAL) Semipalmated Plover 8 Killdeer 24 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Sanderling 4 Semipalmated Sandpiper 19 Least Sandpiper 22 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 *BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER *2 shorebird sp. 2 Laughing Gull 13 Ring-billed Gull 68 Herring Gull 418 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (adult summer) Great Black-backed Gull 531 Caspian Tern 37 Mourning Dove 37 Chimney Swift 7 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 9 Belted Kingfisher 1 (female) Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 empidonax flycatcher sp. 2 Eastern Kingbird 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 11 Bank Swallow 3 Barn Swallow 3 American Crow 8 Carolina Wren 1 Gray Catbird 5 European Starling 30 White-eyed Vireo 1 Palm Warbler 15 (1 Yellow, 14 Western) Common Yellowthroat 6 Northern Cardinal 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Savannah Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 3 Bobolink 38 Red-winged Blackbird 21 American Goldfinch 4 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 REPTILES Painted Turtle 1 BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 2 (1 male, 1 female) Cabbage White 60 Clouded Sulphur 26 Orange Sulphur 19 Cloudless Sulphur 73 Little Yellow 1 Gray Hairstreak 7 American Snout 2 Variegated Fritillary 18 Pearl Crescent 4 American Lady 2 Monarch 388 skipper sp. 19 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com