Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 28, 2004
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: sunny, 75 degrees, SW 5K; PM: sunny, 80 degrees, SSW 10K
Observers: Kevin Graff, 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 - 7 (2 adult, 5 striped head-and-neck young)
Double-crested Cormorant - 37
Great Blue Heron - 5
Cattle Egret - 1
Canada Goose - 67
*EURASIAN WIGEON - 1 (male) [NEW ISLAND SPECIES: #281]
American Black Duck - 5
American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid - 1
Mallard - 873
Blue-winged Teal - 4
Northern Shoveler - 28
Green-winged Teal - 2
Lesser Scaup - 1 (male)
Osprey - 9
Northern Harrier - 1 (immature)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 3
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 36
Killdeer - 7
*AMERICAN  AVOCET - 36
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 5
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 708
*WILLET - 2
Spotted Sandpiper - 5
*MARBLED GODWIT - 1
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 3
*SANDERLING - 8
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 635
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 73
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 42
peep sp. - 655
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 13
*STILT SANDPIPER - 8
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 6 (juvenile)
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 3 (adult)
Laughing Gull - 90
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 (adult)
Ring-billed Gull - 145
Herring Gull - 137
Great Black-backed Gull - 783
Caspian Tern - 675
Royal Tern - 5
Common Tern - 3
Forster's Tern - 2
Black Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 4
Chimney Swift - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Tree Swallow - 400
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
Bank Swallow - 20
Barn Swallow - 480
European Starling - 42
Common Yellowthroat - 5
Song Sparrow - 5
Swamp  Sparrow - 3
Bobolink - 11
Red-winged Blackbird - 340
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 15

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

REPTILES
Painted Turtle - 1

AMPHIBIANS:
Fowler's Toad - 1
Southern Leopard Frog - 1

FISH
(There appear to be schools of small fish in the new South Cell
impoundment.)

BUTTERFLIES:
Black Swallowtail - 1
Checkered White - 2
Cabbage White - 102
Orange Sulphur - 104
Cloudless Sulphur - 9
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 2
American Lady - 1
Common Buckeye - 14
Red-spotted Admiral - 2
Monarch - 7
Common Sootywing - 5
Least Skipper - 1

DRAGONFLIES:
Common Green Darner - 9
Common Whitetail - 3 (female)
Needham's Skimmer - 2
Blue Dasher - 11
Black  Saddlebags - 31

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


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland