[MDOsprey] Hart-Miller Island: June 5, 1999
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 06 Jun 1999 11:42:59 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for June 5,
1999.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Pat Spina (Setauket, NY), and Dorothy
Shannon (Setauket, NY).
Observation: 0710-1700
AM: Sunny, 65 degrees F., SW 15K
PM: Mostly cloudy, 80 degrees F., SW 15K
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Great Blue Heron 33
Canada Goose 1 (adult)
American Black Duck 9
Mallard 165 (95 M, 52 F, 18 Y)
Osprey 20 (17 adult, 3 nestling)
Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult)
Semipalmated Plover 6
Killdeer 21
Spotted Sandpiper 11
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 137
Least Sandpiper 2
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *11
Dunlin 14
Laughing Gull 7
Ring-billed Gull 7
Herring Gull 956
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *9 (5 1st-S, 3 2nd-S,1 3rd-S)
Great Black-backed Gull 692
Caspian Tern 62
Common Tern 2
Least Tern 1
Mourning Dove 2
Northern Flicker 1 (Yellow-shafted)
Willow Flycatcher 6
Eastern Kingbird 6
White-eyed Vireo 1
American Crow 4
Fish Crow 5
Purple Martin 2
Tree Swallow 7
Barn Swallow 25
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 3
Marsh Wren 10
American Robin 1
Gray Catbird 7
Northern Mockingbird 1
Cedar Waxwing 4
Yellow Warbler 13
Common Yellowthroat 7
Song Sparrow 35
Swamp Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 120
Common Grackle 4
Orchard Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 2
MAMMALS
Muskrat 2
Red Fox fresh tracks
Raccoon fresh tracks
BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 (yellow)
"blackish" swallowtail sp. 15
Cabbage White 35
Clouded Sulphur 1
Orange Sulphur 2
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com