This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for August 14, 1999. The observer was Gene Scarpulla. Observation: 0725-1645 AM: Mostly Sunny, 70 degrees F., SW 15K PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F., S 15K Conditions very dry; minimal shorebird habitat (*SPECIES OF INTEREST) Double-crested Cormorant 7 Great Blue Heron 16 Canada Goose 29 Mallard 78 (includes 4 downy young) *AMERICAN WIGEON *1 Osprey 17 (2 ad., 10 juv., 5 unkn.) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *1 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *7 Killdeer 18 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *9 Spotted Sandpiper 6 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *5 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *25 Semipalmated/Western peep sp. 7 *LEAST SANDPIPER *33 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *1 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *1 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *2 (juvenile) Laughing Gull 27 Ring-billed Gull 139 Herring Gull 108 Great Black-backed Gull 897 Caspian Tern 25 Mourning Dove 14 Eastern Kingbird 6 Fish Crow 2 Purple Martin 2 Tree Swallow 3 Bank Swallow 12 Barn Swallow 38 Gray Catbird 3 (includes 1 juvenile) European Starling 3 Common Yellowthroat 5 Song Sparrow 45 Swamp Sparrow 5 Northern Cardinal 1 (male) Indigo Bunting 3 Bobolink 2 Red-winged Blackbird 59 House Finch 3 American Goldfinch 11 MAMMALS Muskrat 2 BUTTERFLIES blackish swallowtail sp. 3 Cabbage White 6 Orange Sulphur 13 Little Yellow 1 Gray Hairstreak 3 Monarch 11 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com