Hart-Miller Island: 09/19/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:31:49 -0400


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