[MDOsprey] Hart-Miller Island: 07/03/99
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Tue, 06 Jul 1999 09:40:25 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for July 3,
1999.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Ryan Bakelaar (Mahwah, NJ).
Observation: 0710-1700
AM: Sunny, 75 degrees F., SW 15K
PM: Partly cloudy, 90 degrees F., S 20K
Double-crested Cormorant 12
Great Blue Heron 40
Great Egret 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 (adult)
Canada Goose 12 (includes 2 downy young)
*GADWALL *1 (male)
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 187 (includes 46 downy young)
Osprey 21 (14 adult, 7 nestling)
Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult)
Killdeer 38 (37 adult, 1 juvenile)
*AMERICAN AVOCET *1 (male)
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS *4
Spotted Sandpiper 19 (18 adult, 1 juvenile)
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *1
*LEAST SANDPIPER *60
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER *6
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *5 (griseus)
Ring-billed Gull 129
Herring Gull 105
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *3 (2 1st-S, 1 2nd-S to 3rd-W)
*GLAUCOUS GULL *1 (2nd-S to 3rd-W)
Great Black-backed Gull 951
Caspian Tern 21
Common Tern 3
Least Tern 2
Mourning Dove 17
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Eastern Kingbird 5
Fish Crow 3
Purple Martin 9
Tree Swallow 30
Bank Swallow 9
Barn Swallow 22
Tufted Titmouse 3
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 7
Marsh Wren 14
American Robin 1
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 1
Cedar Waxwing 10
European Starling 1
Yellow Warbler 5
Common Yellowthroat 10
Song Sparrow 50
Swamp Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 1 (male)
Blue Grosbeak 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 120
Common Grackle 6 (Purple)
Orchard Oriole 1
House Finch 7
American Goldfinch 16
MAMMALS
Red Fox fresh tracks
Raccoon fresh tracks
BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail 1 (male)
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 (yellow)
blackish swallowtail sp. 4
Cabbage White 27
Orange Sulphur 6
Gray Hairstreak 1
dark spread-winged skipper sp. 1
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com