This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for May 22, 1999. (Anne Arundel Bird Club Field Trip) The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz, Don Burggraf, Phil Powers, Kim Hudyma, Kathy Neugebauer, and Paul Fofonoff. Observation: 0715-1700 AM: Sunny, 55 degrees F., SE 2K PM: Mostly sunny, 85 degrees F., SE 5K Double-crested Cormorant 48 Great Blue Heron 39 Great Egret 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 (adult) Canada Goose 13 Mallard 104 (38 M, 27 F, 39 Y) Greater Scaup 1 (male) Lesser Scaup 1 (male) Osprey 15 (13 adult, 2 nestling) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) Black-bellied Plover 7 Semipalmated Plover 24 Killdeer 14 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 *WILLET *1 (WESTERN) Spotted Sandpiper 31 Whimbrel 5 Ruddy Turnstone 9 Semipalmated Sandpiper 506 Least Sandpiper 41 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *4 Dunlin 92 peep sp. 280 Short-billed Dowitcher 7 Laughing Gull 3 Ring-billed Gull 1 Herring Gull 446 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (3rd-summer) *GLAUCOUSx(HERRING?) GULL HYBRID*1 (2nd-summer) Slightly larger than a Herring Gull Very white plumage with some tan markings Silver gray mantle (as in typical Glaucous) Cocoa-colored primaries (paler than Herring) (Glaucous should be white) Cocoa-colored tail band (1" wide, 1/3 way up tail) (Glaucous should not have solid band) [There were differing opinions on this bird.] Great Black-backed Gull 155 Caspian Tern 78 *ROYAL TERN *5 *ARTIC TERN *1 (adult summer) *BLACK SKIMMER *1 Mourning Dove 5 Willow Flycatcher 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 8 American Crow 1 Fish Crow 8 Purple Martin 1 Tree Swallow 11 (nest with 4 eggs) Bank Swallow 4 Barn Swallow 12 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 1 Marsh Wren 6 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 4 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 3 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Yellow Warbler 17 Blackpoll Warbler 1 American Redstart 1 Common Yellowthroat 11 Song Sparrow 28 Swamp Sparrow 4 Indigo Bunting 1 Red-winged Blackbird 105 Common Grackle 5 Orchard Oriole 3 House Finch 4 American Goldfinch 8 MAMMALS Muskrat 4 Red Fox 1 Raccoon (fresh tracks) BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 3 Spicebush Swallowtail 1 "black" swallowtail sp. 9 Cabbage White 5 Clouded Sulphur 2 Orange Sulphur 2 American Lady 2 Viceroy 1 Southern Cloudywing 1 dark skipper sp. 4 DRAGONFLIES Wandering Glider 1 glider sp. 4 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com