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Hart-Miller Island: September 25, 2004

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Maryland Birds & Birding

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Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:25:46 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 25, 2004
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: mostly sunny, 68 degrees, SE 2K; PM: mostly sunny, 78 degrees,
SE 2K
Observers: Dave Curson, Joe Hanfman, 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])

(21 Shorebird Species)

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Pied-billed Grebe - 8
Double-crested Cormorant - 63
*GREAT CORMORANT - 1 (adult)
Great Blue Heron - 12
Snowy Egret - 2
*TRICOLORED HERON - 1
Canada Goose - 1
Mute Swan - 2
Gadwall - 2
American Wigeon - 3
American Black Duck - 5
Mallard - 126
Blue-winged Teal - 50
Northern Shoveler - 139
Northern Pintail - 100
Green-winged Teal - 250
teal sp. - 300
Lesser Scaup - 1 (male)
Ruddy Duck - 18
duck sp. - 350
Osprey - 4
Bald Eagle - 1 (immature)
Northern Harrier - 1 (immature)
*MERLIN - 1 (chasing an Osprey)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 7
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 5
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 57
Killdeer - 1
*AMERICAN  AVOCET - 27
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 15
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 141
*HUDSONIAN GODWIT - 1
*MARBLED GODWIT - 1
*SANDERLING - 28
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 109
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 1
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 64
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 4
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1 (juvenile)
*DUNLIN - 1 (juvenile)
*CURLEW SANDPIPER - 1 (adult breeding plumage) [This plumage surprised me in
the field, but at home a check in The Birds of the Western Palearctic (BWP)
states that onset of post-breeding moult differs in sexes and in populations
with some not beginning the moult until mid-September to early October.
Also, moults that begin prior to fall migration are suspended until after
the migration ends.]
*STILT SANDPIPER - 37
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 6 (juvenile)
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 2
Laughing Gull - 12
Ring-billed Gull - 38
Herring Gull - 148
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 2 (adult summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 203
Caspian Tern - 218
Common Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 32
Barn Swallow - 2
Carolina Wren - 3
Marsh Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 1
European Starling - 200
Palm Warbler - 4 (Western)
Common Yellowthroat - 6
spizella sparrow sp. - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 18
Song Sparrow - 3
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 310
Brown-headed Cowbird - 30
American Goldfinch - 4

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

AMPHIBIANS:
Fowler's Toad - 1

BUTTERFLIES:
Checkered White - 1
Cabbage White - 24
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (white form female)
Orange Sulphur - 78
Cloudless Sulphur - 3
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 14
Common Buckeye - 14
Monarch - 5
Least Skipper - 3

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth - 2 (Wooly Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 9

DRAGONFLIES:
Common Green Darner - 3
Seaside Dragonlet - 2
Black  Saddlebags - 4

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


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland