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Hart-Miller Island: August 21, 2004

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Maryland Birds & Birding

Date:

Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:27:08 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 21, 2004
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: cloudy, 79 degrees, WSW 10K; PM: cloudy, 81 degrees,WSW 10K
Observers: Zach Baer, Mike Burchett, Barbara Gearhart, Matt Hafner, Hans
Holbrook, Gene Scarpulla, Gary Smyle, Jim Stasz, Mike Welch
(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])

(Numbers are preliminary. Observers please send any changes to
 )

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Pied-billed Grebe - 4
Double-crested Cormorant - 58
Great Blue Heron - 14
Glossy Ibis - 1
Canada Goose - 59
Wood Duck - 2
Gadwall - 1
American Black Duck - 5
American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid - 2
Mallard - 1375
Blue-winged Teal - 8
Northern Shoveler - 5
Green-winged Teal - 6
Lesser Scaup - 1
Ruddy Duck - 11 (10 male, 1 female)
Osprey - 15
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Coopers Hawk - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 4
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 72
Killdeer - 8
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile)
*AMERICAN  AVOCET - 38
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 7
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 634
*WILLET - 11
Spotted Sandpiper - 11
*MARBLED GODWIT - 1
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 3
*SANDERLING - 3
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 329
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 73
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 8
peep sp. - 3400
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 10
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 13
*DUNLIN - 1 (female)
*STILT SANDPIPER - 29
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 6 (juvenile)
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 4 (adult breeding plumage)
dowitcher sp. - 10
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1
Laughing Gull - 45
Bonaparte's Gull - 3 (2 adult, 1 juvenile)
Ring-billed Gull - 111
Herring Gull - 99
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (1st-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 935
Caspian Tern - 349
*ROYAL TERN - 2
Forster's Tern - 6
Least  Tern - 3 (2 adult, 1 juvenile)
*BLACK TERN - 31
Mourning Dove - 18
Chimney Swift - 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 7
Purple Martin - 75
Tree Swallow - 1500
Bank Swallow - 60
Barn Swallow - 80
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 8
European Starling - 463
Yellow Warbler - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 8
Song Sparrow - 7
Swamp  Sparrow - 10
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 6
Bobolink - 19
Red-winged Blackbird - 285
Common Grackle - 1
Brown-headed Cowbird - 54
House Finch - 25
American Goldfinch - 10

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
Raccoon - 1

AMPHIBIANS:
Fowler's Toad - 1

BUTTERFLIES:
Black Swallowtail - 1
Checkered White - 7
Cabbage White - 48
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 43
Cloudless Sulphur - 3
Gray Hairstreak - 17
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 6
Painted Lady - 1
Common Buckeye - 3
Red-spotted Admiral - 1
Viceroy - 1
Monarch - 3
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
duskywing sp. - 1
Common Sootywing - 19
Least Skipper - 9

DRAGONFLIES:
Common Green Darner - 10
Halloween Pennant - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 1
Seaside Dragonlet - 1
Needham's Skimmer - 2
Blue Dasher - 50
Carolina Saddlebags - 3
Black  Saddlebags - 20

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


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland