Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 17, 2004
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: sunny, 75 degrees, SE 5K; PM: mostly sunny, 85 degrees, SE 5K
Observers: Zack Baer, Mike Burchett, Matt  Hafner, Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz
(Shorebird surveys done in conjunction with the Manomet Center for
Conservation Sciences: International Shorebird Surveys [ISS] and the Program
for Regional and International Shorebird Monitoring [PRISM])

*SPECIES OF NOTE

*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 1 (2nd week calling on territory)
Double-crested Cormorant - 7
Great Blue Heron - 8
Snowy Egret - 1
Cattle Egret - 14
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
*GLOSSY IBIS - 9
Canada Goose - 78
Mute Swan - 1
Wood Duck - 4
American Black Duck hybrid - 4
Mallard - 150
*LESSER SCAUP - 2
*RUDDY DUCK - 9
Osprey - 9
American Coot - 1
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 9
Killdeer - 16
*AMERICAN  AVOCET - 11
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 3
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 318
Spotted Sandpiper - 12 (including 1 downy young)
*SANDERLING - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 384
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 350
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 413
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 9
*STILT SANDPIPER - 30
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 122 (hendersoni)
Laughing Gull - 33
*BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 680
Herring Gull - 13
Great Black-backed Gull - 537
Caspian Tern - 135
Common Tern - 2
Forster's Tern - 13
small Sterna sp. - 115
Least  Tern - 9
Mourning Dove - 7
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (carrying food)
Eastern Kingbird - 6
Purple Martin - 9
Tree Swallow - 40
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - (? - need number)
Bank Swallow - 20
Barn Swallow - 130
swallow sp. - 400
Marsh Wren - 2
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 2
Northern  Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 50
Cedar Waxwing - 1
Yellow Warbler - 8
Common Yellowthroat - 21
Song Sparrow - 5
Swamp  Sparrow - 8
Red-winged Blackbird - 160
Common Grackle - 43
Brown-headed Cowbird - 18
American Goldfinch - 4

MAMMALS:
Fox - 3

AMPHIBIANS:
Fowler's Toad - 2

BUTTERFLIES:
Pipevine Swallowtail - 8
Black Swallowtail - 8
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
Checkered White - 3
Cabbage White - 130
Clouded Sulfur - 1
Orange Sulfur - 85
Gray Hairstreak - 2
Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 1
American Lady - 1
Common Buckeye - 6
Red-spotted Purple - 3
Monarch - 1
Silver-spotted Skipper - 3
Common Sootywing - 8
Least Skipper - 8

DRAGONFLIES:
Common Green Darner - 8
Needham's Skimmer - 40
Blue Dasher - 200
Wandering Glider - 8
Black  Saddlebags - 13

DAMSELFLIES:
bluet sp. - 1000's
Rambur's Forktail - 10,000's


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland