This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for July 31, 1999. The observer was Gene Scarpulla. Observation: 0710-1650 AM: Sunny, 80 degrees F., N 5K PM: Sunny, 95 degrees F., S 5K (*SPECIES OF INTEREST) Double-crested Cormorant 8 Great Blue Heron 37 Little Blue Heron 1 (immature) Canada Goose 23 Mallard 37 (includes 8 downy young) Osprey 18 (11 adult, 7 juvenile) Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *11 Killdeer 23 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *1 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *44 (includes 2 juvenile) *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *1 Spotted Sandpiper 16 (includes 6 juvenile) *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *1173 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *234 *LEAST SANDPIPER *26 (includes 3 juvenile) peep sp. 500 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *26 *STILT SANDPIPER *1 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *1 (hendersoni) Laughing Gull 4 Ring-billed Gull 207 Herring Gull 28 Great Black-backed Gull 615 Caspian Tern 45 (includes 1 juvenile) Common Tern 7 (includes 1 juvenile) Mourning Dove 7 Willow Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 5 Fish Crow 1 crow sp. 1 Purple Martin 5 Tree Swallow 4 Bank Swallow 52 Cliff Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 70 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 1 Marsh Wren 1 Gray Catbird 5 Yellow Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 7 Scarlet Tanager 1 Song Sparrow 38 Swamp Sparrow 7 Northern Cardinal 1 Bobolink 3 Red-winged Blackbird 66 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 4 MAMMALS Muskrat 2 BUTTERFLIES Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 (yellow) blackish swallowtail sp. 1 Cabbage White 13 Orange Sulphur 12 Variegated Fritillary 1 Monarch 15 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com