Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 24, 2004
0715 - 1650
Weather: AM: cloudy, 74 degrees, NE 10K; PM: mostly sunny, 79 degrees, NE
10K
Observers: Ed Boyd, Matt Hafner, Dave Powell, 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])

(Note: As of July 2004, the Island bird list is 280 species)

*SPECIES OF NOTE

*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile with striped head and neck)
Double-crested Cormorant - 10
Great Blue Heron - 13
*TRICOLORED HERON - 1
Cattle Egret - 11
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2
*GLOSSY IBIS - 12
Canada Goose - 284
Mute Swan - 1
Wood Duck - 2
American Black Duck - 7
American Black Duck hybrid - 1
Mallard - 359
*LESSER SCAUP - 2
*RUDDY DUCK - 1
Osprey - 11
Bald Eagle - 2 (adults in vicinity of nest)
Northern Harrier - 1 (female)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult hunting the North Cell)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 3
Killdeer - 3
*AMERICAN  AVOCET - 16
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 6
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 1093
Spotted Sandpiper - 17
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*SANDERLING - 3
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 1314
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 170
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 1155
peep sp. - 566
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 10
*DUNLIN - 1 (breeding plumage female)
    (clean white band crisply separating chest streaking from black belly
patch - possible pacifica?)
*STILT SANDPIPER - 34
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 367 (including 100's of hendersoni and 2 griseus)
Laughing Gull - 43
Ring-billed Gull - 605
Herring Gull - 31
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 2 (1 1st-summer, 1 3rd-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 925
Caspian Tern - 160
Common Tern - 9
Forster's Tern - 61
Least  Tern - 24
Mourning Dove - 23
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (carrying food)
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 9
Purple Martin - 19
Tree Swallow - 30
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 18
Bank Swallow - 35
Cliff Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 73
swallow sp. - 80
House Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 9
Gray Catbird - 7
European Starling - 73
Yellow Warbler - 12
Common Yellowthroat - 17
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 21
Swamp  Sparrow - 10
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 150
Common Grackle - 28
Brown-headed Cowbird - 25
Orchard Oriole - 7
House Finch - 14
American Goldfinch - 7

AMPHIBIANS:
Fowler's Toad - 2

BUTTERFLIES:
Black Swallowtail - 5
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 (black female)
Checkered White - 2
Cabbage White - 44
Clouded Sulfur - 6
Orange Sulfur - 35
Cloudless Sulfur - 4
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Eastern Tailed Blue - 3
American Snout - 2
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 15
American Lady - 1
Red Admiral - 1
Common Buckeye - 2
Monarch - 1
Silver-spotted Skipper - 2
duskywing sp. - 1
Common Sootywing - 9
Least Skipper - 2

DRAGONFLIES:
Common Green Darner - 10
Halloween Pennant - 1
Seaside Dragonlet - 5
Common Whitetail - 2
Needham's Skimmer - 30
Blue Dasher - 225
Carolina Saddlebags - 2
Black  Saddlebags - 10

DAMSELFLIES:
bluet sp. - 1000's
Rambur's Forktail - 1000's


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland