This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for Saturday, October 3, 1998. (Audubon Naturalist Society field trip) The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Hugh Mahanes, Sandy Hazel,Jan Chambers, Cornelia Pasche, Mark Eanes, Laurie Byrne. Observation: 0715-1650 AM: Cloudy, 50 degrees F., N 10K PM: Cloudy, 70 degrees F., N 10K NOTE: Dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat Double-crested Cormorant 19 Great Blue Heron 8 Canada Goose 224 (flyover) *"SMALL RACE" CANADA GOOSE *1 (flyover) Green-winged Teal 2 American Black Duck 4 Mallard 122 *SURF SCOTER *5 (arrival) Northern Harrier 2 (immature) American Kestrel 2 (1 male, 1 female) *MERLIN *1 (female, arrival) Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) Black-bellied Plover 5 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *8 Killdeer 11 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Least Sandpiper 2 "Semipalmated/Western" peep sp. 1 Laughing Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 31 Herring Gull 245 Great Black-backed Gull 509 Caspian Tern 3 Rock Dove 1 Mourning Dove 2 Chimney Swift 5 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Tree Swallow 30 crow sp. 1 Carolina Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 4 *AMERICAN PIPIT *2 (arrival) European Starling 269 Palm Warbler 2 (Western) Common Yellowthroat 2 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 26 Swamp Sparrow 1 sparrow sp. 9 Red-winged Blackbird 17 Brown-headed Cowbird 24 MAMMALS small rodent sp. 1 Muskrat 1 Raccoon (fresh tracks) BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 1 Clouded Sulphur 1 Orange Sulphur 20 Cloudless Sulphur 1 Gray Hairstreak 1 Variegated Fritillary 7 Pearl Crescent 3 Monarch 8 Common Checkered Skipper 1 skipper sp. 7 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com