Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 4, 2004
0715 - 1650
Weather: AM: cloudy, 79 degrees, NE 10K; PM: sunny, 85 degrees,WSW NE 10K
Observers: Jonathan Alderfer, Stan Arnold, Ed Boyd, Gwn Brewer, Mike 
Burchett, Dayy Bystrak, Hans Holbrook, George Jett, Fred Shaffer, Jeff Shenot, Jim 
Stasz, Sherman Suter, Leo Weigant
(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 - 5
Double-crested Cormorant - 62
Great Blue Heron - 17
Great Egret -1
Snowy Egret - 1
*TRICOLORED HERON - 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3
Glossy Ibis - 1
Canada Goose - 79
Wood Duck - 5
*EURASIAN WIGEON - 1 (male)
American Wigeon - 3
American Black Duck - 45
Mallard - 987
Northern Pintail - 3
Blue-winged Teal - 70
Northern Shoveler - 68
Green-winged Teal - 44
Lesser Scaup - 1
Ruddy Duck - 13
Osprey - 7
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
North Harrier -2
Sharp-shinned  Hawk - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 2 (adult)
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 2 (adult)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 50
Killdeer - 11
*AMERICAN  AVOCET - 24
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 3
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 355
Spotted Sandpiper - 5
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 2
*SANDERLING - 7
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 502
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 31
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 58
peep sp. - 500
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 11
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 4
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 10
*DUNLIN - 1 (female)
*STILT SANDPIPER - 6
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 20 (juvenile)
*COMMON SNIPE -1
Laughing Gull - 36
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 (adult)
Ring-billed Gull - 335
Herring Gull - 247
Great Black-backed Gull - 1156
Caspian Tern - 567
*ROYAL TERN - 2
Rock Pigeon - 4
Mourning Dove - 22
Chimney Swift - 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 6
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Purple Martin - 6
Tree Swallow - 99
Bank Swallow - 4
Barn Swallow - 82
Carolina Wren - 3
House Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 3
European Starling - 370
Yellow Warbler - 1
American Redstart -1
Common Yellowthroat - 22
Song Sparrow - 30
Swamp  Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 5
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Eastern Towhee - 1
Bobolink - 292
Red-winged Blackbird - 391
Common Grackle - 1
Brown-headed Cowbird - 90
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 26

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
Raccoon - fresh tracks
White-taied Deer - fresh tracks

AMPHIBIANS:
Fowler's Toad - 1
Souhtern Leopard Frog - 6

REPTILES
Garter Snake 1 (found dead in road)

BUTTERFLIES:
Black Swallowtail - 3
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail -1
Zebra Swallowtail -1
Checkered White - 5
Cabbage White - 120
Clouded Sulphur - 5
Orange Sulphur - 155
Cloudless Sulphur - 6
Gray Hairstreak - 5
Eastern Tailed Blue - 6
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 43
Painted Lady - 2
American Snout -1
Common Buckeye - 15
Red-spotted Admiral - 1
Viceroy - 1
Monarch - 10
Silver-spotted Skipper - 5
Wild Indigo Duskywing. - 2
Common Sootywing - 7
Least Skipper - 17
Fiery Skipper -3
Clouded Skipper - 2
Sachem - 12

MOTHS:
Milkweed Tussockmoth - (caterpillar)

DRAGONFLIES:
Wanderling Glider - 4
Common Green Darner - 40
12-Spotted Skimmer -1
Eastern Pondhawk - 11
Needham's Skimmer - 4
Blue Dasher - 15
Carolina Saddlebags - 3
Black  Saddlebags - 22

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


Jim Stasz
North Beach, Maryland