[MDOsprey] Hart-Miller Island: 07/17/99
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:12:28 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for July
17, 1999.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Don Burggraf.
Observation: 0705-1700
AM: Sunny, 70 degrees F., SW 10K
PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F., S 20K
(*SPECIES OF INTEREST)
Double-crested Cormorant 9
Great Blue Heron 26
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 (adult)
Canada Goose 12
Mallard 162 (includes 53 downy young)
Osprey 17 (8 adult, 9 juvenile)
American Kestrel 1 (male)
Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER 2
Killdeer 29 (adult)
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS *27
Spotted Sandpiper 25 (includes 3 downy young
& 2 juveniles)
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *6
semipalmated/western peep sp. 55
*LEAST SANDPIPER *910
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER 2
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *18
dowitcher sp. 5
Laughing Gull 2 (1 ad-sum, 1 2nd-sum)
Ring-billed Gull 162
Herring Gull 86
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (2nd-S to 3rd-W)
*GLAUCOUS GULL *1 (2nd-S to 3rd-W)
Great Black-backed Gull 738
Caspian Tern 33
Common Tern 3
Mourning Dove 12
Downy Woodpecker 1
Willow Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 5
crow sp. 1
Purple Martin 1 (male)
Tree Swallow 5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Bank Swallow 21
Barn Swallow 31
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 1
Marsh Wren 8
Gray Catbird 1
European Starling 14
Yellow Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 11
Song Sparrow 49
Swamp Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 43
Brown-headed Cowbird 1 (juvenile)
House Finch 8
American Goldfinch 5
MAMMALS
Muskrat 3
Red Fox fresh tracks
Raccoon fresh tracks
BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail 1 (male)
blackish swallowtail sp. 3
Cabbage White 45
Orange Sulphur 27
Little Yellow 1
Gray Hairstreak 2
Monarch 2
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com