This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for Saturday, September 19, 1998. [Fall Migration Count] The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Ralph Cullison. Observation: 0715-1700 AM: Cloudy, 65 degrees F., NE 15K PM: Cloudy, 75 degrees F., N 5K NOTE: Dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat Double-crested Cormorant 87 Great Blue Heron 11 Canada Goose 12 Green-winged Teal 2 American Black Duck 1 Mallard 88 Blue-winged Teal 1 Osprey 2 Northern Harrier 3 (juvenile) American Kestrel 1 (female) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) Virginia Rail 1 Black-bellied Plover 13 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *8 Semipalmated Plover 1 Killdeer 14 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 16 Sanderling 5 Semipalmated Sandpiper 17 Least Sandpiper 12 Pectoral Sandpiper 3 *DUNLIN *1 *BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER *1 Laughing Gull 3 Ring-billed Gull 71 Herring Gull 369 Great Black-backed Gull 895 Caspian Tern 22 Mourning Dove 19 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 swallow sp. 4 American Crow 5 Carolina Wren 4 Marsh Wren 1 *RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET *1 (FALL ARRIVAL) Gray Catbird 8 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 154 White-eyed Vireo 1 Northern Parula 1 Yellow Warbler 3 *PALM WARBLER *52 (1 Yellow, 51 Western) Common Yellowthroat 30 Savannah Sparrow 7 Song Sparrow 31 Swamp Sparrow 3 Bobolink 7 Red-winged Blackbird 30 American Goldfinch 14 BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 1 Cabbage White 63 Clouded Sulphur 10 Orange Sulphur 13 Cloudless Sulphur 28 Gray Hairstreak 25 Eastern Tailed Blue 1 Variegated Fritillary 5 American Lady 1 Monarch 9 dark skipper sp. 1 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com