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 (*SPECIES OF INTEREST) 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