[MDOsprey] Hart-Miller Island: 07/24/99

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:23:42 -0400


This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for July
24, 1999.

The observer was Gene Scarpulla.

Observation: 0710-1655
             AM: Mostly cloudy, 80 degrees F., S 15K
             PM: Partly cloudy, 95 degrees F., SW 5K

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 Double-crested Cormorant        5
 Great Blue Heron                32
 Canada Goose                    12
 Mallard                         128 (includes 8 downy young)
 Osprey                          22
 American Kestrel                3
 Peregrine Falcon                1 (adult)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER            *9
 Killdeer                        11
*AMERICAN AVOCET                *1 (male)
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS             *2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS              *70
 Spotted Sandpiper               24 (includes 1 downy young)
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER         *110
*WESTERN SANDPIPER              *6
*LEAST SANDPIPER                *50
 peep sp.                        267
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER             *20
 Laughing Gull                   3
 Ring-billed Gull                101 (includes 1 juvenile)
 Herring Gull                    70
 Great Black-backed Gull         1027 (includes 2 juvenile)
 Caspian Tern                    26
 Common Tern                     3
 Mourning Dove                   8
 Willow Flycatcher               2
 Eastern Kingbird                4
 American Crow                   1
 Purple Martin                   3
 Barn Swallow                    50
 House Wren                      1
 Marsh Wren                      11
 Gray Catbird                    1
 European Starling               12
 Yellow Warbler                  2
 Common Yellowthroat             16
 Song Sparrow                    62
 Swamp Sparrow                   3
 Northern Cardinal               2
 Red-winged Blackbird            101
 Brown-headed Cowbird            1 (juvenile)
 House Finch                     1
 American Goldfinch              3

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                         1
 Raccoon                         fresh tracks

BUTTERFLIES
 Black Swallowtail               2 (male)
 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail       4 (3 black female; 1 yellow)
 blackish swallowtail sp.        5
 Cabbage White                   45
 Orange Sulphur                  14
 Little Yellow                   1
 Gray Hairstreak                 3
 Monarch                         10
 Least Skipper                   1
 Broad-winged Skipper            2

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com