Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 31, 2004
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: mostly sunny, 79 degrees, SSW 15K; PM: sunny, 88 degrees, SSW
10K
Observers: Barry Cooper, Bill Hubick, Danny Poet, Jan Reese, Bob Ringler,
Gene Scarpulla
(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
Double-crested Cormorant - 4
Great Blue Heron - 11
Great Egret - 1
Snowy Egret - 1
Cattle Egret - 3
Green Heron - 2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile)
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 (juvenile)
Glossy Ibis - 5
Canada Goose - 99
Wood Duck - 3
American Black Duck - 7
Mallard - 171
Ruddy Duck - 3
Osprey - 10 (including 3 nestlings)
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 14
Killdeer - 7
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 3 (2 adult, 1 juvenile)
*AMERICAN  AVOCET - 16
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 1605
*WILLET - 5 (Western)
Spotted Sandpiper - 12
*HUDSONIAN GODWIT - 1
*RED KNOT - 1
*SANDERLING - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 436
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 123
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 211
peep sp. - 880
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 7
*DUNLIN - 2
*STILT SANDPIPER - 78
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 143
Laughing Gull - 308
Ring-billed Gull - 418
Herring Gull - 16
Great Black-backed Gull - 1213
Caspian Tern - 122
Common Tern - 19
Forster's Tern - 175
Least  Tern - 32
*BLACK TERN - 2 (breeding plumage)
Mourning Dove - 21
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (carrying food)
Eastern Kingbird - 3
Purple Martin - 12
Tree Swallow - 350
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
Bank Swallow - 126
Barn Swallow - 500
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 2
European Starling - 110
Cedar Waxwing - 1
Yellow Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 13
Song Sparrow - 16
Swamp  Sparrow - 6
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Bobolink - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 100
Common Grackle - 5
Brown-headed Cowbird - 10
House Finch - 9
American Goldfinch - 6

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 3

AMPHIBIANS:
Fowler's Toad - 1

BUTTERFLIES:
Pipevine Swallowtail - 1
Black Swallowtail - 1 (male)
Spicebush Swallowtail - 3
Checkered White - 9
Cabbage White - 39
Clouded Sulfur - 1
Orange Sulfur - 61
Cloudless Sulfur - 4
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 3
Common Buckeye - 2
Monarch - 4
Common Sootywing - 24

DRAGONFLIES:
Common Green Darner - 8
Halloween Pennant - 1
Needham's Skimmer - 5
Blue Dasher - 300
Carolina Saddlebags - 2
Black  Saddlebags - 11

DAMSELFLIES:
bluet sp. - 100's
Rambur's Forktail - 10's


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland