Hart-Miller Island: 04/17/99

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 23:05:57 -0400 

This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for April
17, 1999.

The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Ralph Cullison.

Observation: 0715-1700
             AM: Sunny, 45 degrees F., SW 20K
             PM: Cloudy, 60 degrees F., SW 10K

 Common Loon                     10
 Double-crested Cormorant        67
 Great Blue Heron                8
 Great Egret                     2
 Turkey Vulture                  1
 Canada Goose                    17
 Mute Swan                       4 (first-spring)
 Gadwall                         2 (1 male, 1 female)
 American Wigeon                 8
 Mallard                         83 (52 male, 31 female)
 Blue-winged Teal                8 (5 male, 3 female)
 Northern Shoveler               1 (male)
 Northern Pintail                1 (female)
 Green-winged Teal               6 (3 male, 3 female)
 Greater Scaup                   8 (4 male, 4 female)
 Lesser Scaup                    29 (19 male, 10 female)
 Bufflehead                      4 (2 male, 2 female)
 Red-breasted Merganser          13 (4 male, 9 female)
 Osprey                          15
 Northern Harrier                2 (1 female, 1 immature)
 Sharp-shinned Hawk              1
 accipiter sp.                   1
 American Kestrel                4 (1 male, 3 female)
 Peregrine Falcon                1 (adult)
 Common Moorhen                  1
 Black-bellied Plover            1
 Killdeer                        18
 Lesser Yellowlegs               6
 Least Sandpiper                 3
 Pectoral Sanpiper               3
 Dunlin                          1
 Common Snipe                    4
*LITTLE GULL                    *3 (1 1st-winter,
                                    2 adult winter)
 Bonaparte's Gull                370
 Ring-billed Gull                4
 Herring Gull                    318
 Great Black-backed Gull         96
 Caspian Tern                    221
 Common Tern                     1
 Mourning Dove                   6
 Red-bellied Woodpecker          1
 Northern Flicker                2
 American Crow                   1
 Fish Crow                       7 (2 at a stick nest)
 crow sp.                        8
 Tree Swallow                    15
 Barn Swallow                    6
 Carolina Wren                   4
 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher           5
 American Robin                  1
 Northern Mockingbird            1
 European Starling               19
 Palm Warbler                    7 (Yellow)
 Eastern Towhee                  3
 Field Sparrow                   8
 Savannah Sparrow                6
 Song Sparrow                    35
 Swamp Sparrow                   7
 White-throated Sparrow          4
 White-crowned Sparrow           12 (first-spring)
 Northern Cardinal               5 (3 male, 2 female)
 Red-winged Blackbird            118
 Common Grackle                  56
 Brown-headed Cowbird            2
 House Finch                     6
 American Goldfinch              13

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                         4
 Raccoon                         1

AMPHIBIANS
 Southern Leopard Frog           3

BUTTERFLIES
 Cabbage White                   8
 Clouded Sulphur                 5
 Gray Hairstreak                 3
 Mourning Cloak                  1

DRAGONFLIES
  Common Green Darner            1

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com