This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for Saturday, October 31, 1998. The observer was Gene Scarpulla. Observation: 0710-1500 AM: Sunny, 35 degrees F., NW 15K PM: Sunny, 65 degrees F., N 20K Common Loon 2 Double-crested Cormorant 6 Great Blue Heron 6 Canada Goose 28 (flyover) Green-winged Teal 1 (female) American Black Duck 12 Mallard 11 (8 male, 3 female) Bufflehead 5 (2 male, 3 female) *RUDDY DUCK *6 (male, ARRIVAL) Northern Harrier 6 (1 male, 5 immature) Cooper's Hawk 1 (immature) American Kestrel 3 (2 male, 1 female) Merlin 1 (female) Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) Killdeer 4 Laughing Gull 5 Ring-billed Gull 11 Herring Gull 165 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *2 (1 third-winter, 1 adult winter) Great Black-backed Gull 65 Mourning Dove 2 Northern Flicker 1 (Yellow-shafted) American Crow 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 American Robin 1 American Pipit 14 European Starling 2000 Yellow-rumped Warbler 4 (Myrtle) Palm Warbler 1 (Yellow) Northern Cardinal 1 (male) Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 35 Swamp Sparrow 4 White-throated Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 36 (Slate-colored) *SNOW BUNTING *2 (ARRIVAL) Red-winged Blackbird 53 Eastern Meadowlark 2 blackbird sp. 112 American Goldfinch 7 MAMMALS small rodent sp. 2 (caught by American Kestrels) medium rodent sp. 1 (caught by Northern Harrier) Muskrat (fresh tracks) Red Fox (fresh tracks) Raccoon (fresh tracks) BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 99 Clouded Sulphur 2 Orange Sulphur 71 Variegated Fritillary 7 Common Buckeye 8 Monarch 4 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com