Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 7, 2004
0715 - 1700
Weather: AM: partly cloudy, 64 degrees, NNW 10K; PM: partly cloudy, 75
degrees, NNE 10K
Observers: Stan Arnold, Jim Brighton, Mike Burchett, Danny Bystrak, Matt
Hafner, Hans Holbrook, Gene Scarpulla, Jeff Shenot, Jim Stasz, Debbie Terry
(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: Numbers are preliminary. Observers please send any changes to
 )

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Pied-billed Grebe - 3 (2 adult, 1 stripe-faced immature)
Double-crested Cormorant - 30
Great Blue Heron - 10
Green Heron - 1
Glossy Ibis - 4
Canada Goose - 63
Mute Swan - 1
Wood Duck - 6
Gadwall - 5
American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid - 6
Mallard - 400
Blue-winged Teal - 8
Northern Shoveler - 1
Green-winged Teal - 1
Lesser Scaup - 2
Ruddy Duck - 5
Osprey - 16
Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult, 2 immature)
Northern Harrier - 1 (juvenile)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 68
Killdeer - 7
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile)
*AMERICAN  AVOCET - 26
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 1
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 458
Spotted Sandpiper - 8
*SANDERLING - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 677
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 9
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 25
peep sp. - 637
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 4
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 5
*DUNLIN - 1
*STILT SANDPIPER - 62
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 23
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 6 (breeding plumage)
Laughing Gull - 72
Bonaparte's Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 207
Herring Gull - 32
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 2 (1 1st-summer, 1 3rd-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 220
Caspian Tern - 461
Common Tern - 8
Forster's Tern - 13
Least  Tern - 8
Rock Pigeon - 11
Mourning Dove - 36
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 12
Purple Martin - 154
Tree Swallow - 130
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
Bank Swallow - 29
Cliff Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 340
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 1
American Robin - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 1
Gray Catbird - 3
European Starling - 143
Yellow Warbler - 6
Common Yellowthroat - 3
Song Sparrow - 13
Swamp  Sparrow - 10
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 190
Common Grackle - 4
Brown-headed Cowbird - 8
Orchard Oriole - 4
House Finch - 7
American Goldfinch - 8

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
Raccoon - fresh tracks

AMPHIBIANS:
Fowler's Toad - 2

BUTTERFLIES:
Black Swallowtail - 1
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2
Checkered White - 17
Cabbage White - 47
Clouded Sulfur - 1
Orange Sulfur - 35
Cloudless Sulfur - 5
Gray Hairstreak - 12
Eastern Tailed Blue - 4
Pearl Crescent - 14
Common Buckeye - 1
Viceroy - 1
Monarch - 1
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 6
Common Sootywing - 30
Least Skipper - 4

DRAGONFLIES:
Common Green Darner - 4
Swamp Darner - 3
Common Whitetail - 3
Needham's Skimmer - 5
Blue Dasher - 100's
Carolina Saddlebags - 1
Black  Saddlebags - 11

DAMSELFLIES:
bluet sp. - 100's
Rambur's Forktail - 1000's


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland