[MDOsprey] Hart-Miller Island: 07/10/99
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:57:07 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for July
10, 1999.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.
Observation: 0710-1655
AM: Mostly cloudy, 80 degrees F., W 10K
PM: Cloudy, 85 degrees F., W 20K
Double-crested Cormorant 18
Great Blue Heron 59
Canada Goose 19
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 120 (includes 65 downy young)
*GREATER SCAUP *1 (male)
*RUDDY DUCK *1 (male)
Osprey 28 (18 adult, 10 juvenile)
American Kestrel 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult)
Killdeer 27 (adult)
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS *20
Spotted Sandpiper 39 (adult)
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *2
*LEAST SANDPIPER *281
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *10 (griseus)
Laughing Gull 3
Ring-billed Gull 398
Herring Gull 197
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *3 (1 1S, 1 2S, 1 2S to 3W)
Great Black-backed Gull 941
Caspian Tern 44
Mourning Dove 29
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 5
Fish Crow 2
crow sp. 5
Horned Lark 3 (juvenile)
Tree Swallow 11
Bank Swallow 16
Barn Swallow 88
Tufted Titmouse 3
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 3
Marsh Wren 15
Gray Catbird 4
European Starling 3
Common Yellowthroat 20
Song Sparrow 64
Swamp Sparrow 8
Northern Cardinal 1
Blue Grosbeak 2 (male)
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 129
Orchard Oriole 2
House Finch 5
American Goldfinch 7
MAMMALS
Muskrat 3
Raccoon fresh tracks
BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail 15
Black Swallowtail 1 (male)
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3 (black female)
blackish swallowtail sp. 36
Cabbage White 84
Orange Sulphur 19
Little Yellow 2
Gray Hairstreak 3
Variegated Fritillary 2
Monarch 3
Common Sootywing 2
DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner 4
dragonfly sp. ~50 (~8 species)
[showing various combinations of the following:
thick-bodied; thin-bodied; orange-bodied; red-bodied;
brown-bodied; black-bodied; bright yellow & black-
bodied; clear-winged; spot-winged; saddlebag-winged]
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com