This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for Sunday, October 18, 1998. The observers were Gene Scarpulla, George Jett, and Marty LeGrand (Bay Country Magazine). Observation: 0715-1500 AM: Sunny, 50 degrees F., SW 15K PM: Sunny, 75 degrees F., SE 20K Double-crested Cormorant 30 Great Blue Heron 5 Canada Goose 87 (flyover) Green-winged Teal 1 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 11 (6 male, 5 female) Northern Harrier 4 (immature) Black-bellied Plover 2 Killdeer 13 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Least Sandpiper 5 Laughing Gull 26 Ring-billed Gull 27 Herring Gull 384 Great Black-backed Gull 367 Mourning Dove 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 3 (Yellow-shafted) crow sp. 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 24 American Robin 11 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 585 Yellow-rumped Warbler 4 (Myrtle) *PALM WARBLER *71 (YELLOW) Common Yellowthroat 2 Field Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 73 Song Sparrow 43 Swamp Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 7 White-crowned Sparrow 7 (1 adult, 6 immature) Dark-eyed Junco 2 (Slate-colored) Red-winged Blackbird 21 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 House Finch 4 MAMMALS Muskrat (fresh tracks) Raccoon (fresh tracks) BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 63 Clouded Sulphur 3 Orange Sulphur 3 Cloudless Sulphur 3 Variegated Fritillary 4 Pearl Crescent 1 Red Admiral 4 Common Buckeye 1 Monarch 1 skipper sp. 1 DRAGONFLIES Black-mantled Glider 3 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com