[MDOsprey] Hart-Miller Island: May 31, 1999
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Thu, 03 Jun 1999 22:25:19 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for May 31,
1999.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Ralph Cullison, and Greg Futral.
Observation: 0705-1700
AM: Sunny, 80 degrees F., SE 5K
PM: Sunny, 85 degrees F., S 15K
Double-crested Cormorant 10
Great Blue Heron 41
Canada Goose 17 (9 adult, 8 young)
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 125 (60 M, 36 F, 29 Y)
Osprey 17 (13 adult, 4 nestling)
Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult)
Black-bellied Plover 2
Semipalmated Plover 9
Killdeer 26
Spotted Sandpiper 24
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 147
Least Sandpiper 2
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *2
Dunlin 13
Laughing Gull 5 (1 2nd-summer, 4 adult)
Ring-billed Gull 3
Herring Gull 728
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *5 (2 1st-S, 2 2nd-S,1 3rd-S)
*GLAUCOUSx(HERRING?) GULL HYBRID*1 (2nd-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull 441
Caspian Tern 81
Mourning Dove 4
Willow Flycatcher 3
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 6
Fish Crow 1
crow sp. 3
Purple Martin 2
Tree Swallow 3 (last week's nest destroyed)
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 14
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 2
Marsh Wren 6
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 4
Yellow Warbler 10
Common Yellowthroat 10
Song Sparrow 38
Swamp Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 121
Common Grackle 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 1 (male)
Orchard Oriole 1
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 5
MAMMALS
Muskrat 4
BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2 (yellow)
"blackish" swallowtail sp. 33
Cabbage White 42
Clouded Sulphur 4
Orange Sulphur 3
Viceroy 1
Least Skipper 4
DRAGONFLIES
dragonfly sp. 12
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com