Hart-Miller Island: 10/10/98

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This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, October 10, 1998.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.

Observation: 0710-1700
             AM: Cloudy, 50 degrees F., NW 20K
             PM: Cloudy, 65 degrees F., NW 25K
             
             NOTE: Wet conditions, few shorebirds

 Double-crested Cormorant        34
 Great Blue Heron                6
 Mute Swan                       6 (family group: 2 adult, 4 immature)
 Canada Goose                    158 (flyover)
 American Black Duck             15
 Mallard                         25 (13 male, 12 female)
 Osprey                          2
 Northern Harrier                4 (immature)
 Sharp-shinned Hawk              1 (immature)
 Cooper's Hawk                   2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
 Red-tailed Hawk                 1 (immature)
 American Kestrel                8 (3 male, 5 female)
 Merlin                          2 (1 male, 1 female)
 Peregrine Falcon                3 (2 adult, 1 immature)
 Black-bellied Plover            2
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER         *4
 Killdeer                        11
 Spotted Sandpiper               1
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER          *1 (arrival)
 shorebird sp.                   2
 Laughing Gull                   6
 Ring-billed Gull                15
 Herring Gull                    113
 Great Black-backed Gull         157
 gull sp.                        400 (flushed from island)
 Caspian Tern                    1
 Mourning Dove                   9
 Chimney Swift                   130
 Northern Flicker                1
 Eastern Phoebe                  2
 Tree Swallow                    212
 Northern Rough-winged Swallow   2
 American Crow                   5
 Carolina Wren                   1
 Golden-crowned Kinglet          6 (arrival)
 Gray Catbird                    2
 American Pipit                  1
 European Starling               416
 Palm Warbler                    2 (Western)
 Common Yellowthroat             3
 Savannah Sparrow                9
 Song Sparrow                    28
 Red-winged Blackbird            6
 American Goldfinch              6

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                         (fresh tracks)
 Raccoon                         (fresh tracks)

BUTTERFLIES
 Cabbage White                   2
 Variegated Fritillary           1
 Monarch                         12

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com

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