This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for June 19, 1999. The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Norm Saunders, and Mike Moffatt. Observation: 0710-1645 AM: Sunny, 65 degrees F., N 5K PM: Sunny, 80 degrees F., N 5K Double-crested Cormorant 8 Great Blue Heron 48 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 (adult) Canada Goose 30 American Black Duck 6 Mallard 222 (132 adult, 90 young) Blue-winged Teal 1 (male) Northern Pintail 1 (male) Osprey 20 (15 adult, 5 nestling) Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) Killdeer 30 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Spotted Sandpiper 19 Least Sandpiper 4 *WILSON"S PHALAROPE *1 (male, breeding plumage) Laughing Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 16 Herring Gull 281 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (2nd-summer) *GLAUCOUS GULL *1 (2nd-S to 3rd-W) Great Black-backed Gull 660 Caspian Tern 23 Common Tern 5 Least Tern 6 Rock Dove 1 Mourning Dove 8 Chimney Swift 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Willow Flycatcher 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 3 White-eyed Vireo 2 American Crow 5 Fish Crow 4 Purple Martin 4 Tree Swallow 16 Bank Swallow 3 Barn Swallow 20 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 4 Marsh Wren 8 Gray Catbird 7 Northern Mockingbird 2 Cedar Waxwing 1 European Starling 5 Yellow Warbler 13 Common Yellowthroat 11 Song Sparrow 46 Swamp Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 2 (male) Indigo Bunting 1 Red-winged Blackbird 112 Common Grackle 8 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 (male) Orchard Oriole 2 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 6 MAMMALS Muskrat 3 Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 (yellow) Cabbage White 55 Clouded Sulphur 2 Orange Sulphur 9 Gray Hairstreak 1 Spring Azure 1 American Snout 2 American Lady 1 orange skipper sp. 5 MISCELLANEOUS *HORSESH0E CRAB *1 (a female on the sandy beach in the cove at the north end of old Miller "Island") [I would be interested in any other known Upper Bay records for the Chesapeake.] Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com