Hart-Miller Island: 10/31/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 22:05:07 -0500


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