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Hart-Miller Island: September 11, 2004

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Maryland Birds & Birding

Date:

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:00:25 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 11, 2004
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: mostly cloudy, 74 degrees, ENE 10K; PM: mostly sunny, 80
degrees, ENE 10K
Observers: Mark England, 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 - 6
Double-crested Cormorant - 31
Great Blue Heron - 7
Canada Goose - 18
American Black Duck - 3
Mallard - 1149
Blue-winged Teal - 4
Northern Shoveler - 72
Northern Pintail - 7
Green-winged Teal - 2
Osprey - 5
Northern Harrier - 1 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 3
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 29
Killdeer - 1
*AMERICAN  AVOCET - 23
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 12
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 428
*WILLET - 2 (juvenile)
*MARBLED GODWIT - 2
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 5
*RED KNOT - 2
*SANDERLING - 5
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 127
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 1
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 85
peep sp. - 272
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 4
*STILT SANDPIPER - 61
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 5 (juvenile)
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1 (adult)
dowitcher sp. - 3
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 1
Laughing Gull - 23
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 (adult)
Ring-billed Gull - 202
Herring Gull - 167
Great Black-backed Gull - 701
Caspian Tern - 564
Mourning Dove - 9
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3
Tree Swallow - 11
Barn Swallow - 39
Carolina Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 1
European Starling - 75
Common Yellowthroat - 5
Song Sparrow - 2
Bobolink - 15
Red-winged Blackbird - 22
Brown-headed Cowbird - 115
American Goldfinch - 5

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

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

BUTTERFLIES:
Checkered White - 1
Cabbage White - 27
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 3 (white form female)
Orange Sulphur - 35
Cloudless Sulphur - 3
Gray Hairstreak - 2
Pearl Crescent - 6
Common Buckeye - 11
Monarch - 5
Sachem - 1

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth - 1 (Wooly Bear)
Salt Marsh Moth  - 1 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 16

DRAGONFLIES:
Blue Dasher - 5
Black  Saddlebags - 2

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


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland