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Hart-Miller Island: October 2, 2004

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Maryland Birds & Birding

Date:

Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:40:13 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 2, 2004
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: cloudy, 65 degrees, SW 2K; PM: cloudy, 70 degrees, SW 2K
Observers: Brad Lanning, 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 - 5
Double-crested Cormorant - 61
Great Blue Heron - 7
Great Egret - 1
Snowy Egret - 1
Canada Goose - 115
American Wigeon - 15
American Black Duck - 9
Mallard - 139
Blue-winged Teal - 10
Northern Shoveler - 368
Northern Pintail - 95
Green-winged Teal - 348
Redhead - 1 (male)
Greater Scaup - 3
Lesser Scaup - 2
Ruddy Duck - 135
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult) in vicinity of nest
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
American Coot - 1
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 21
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 9
*AMERICAN  AVOCET - 9
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 5
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 19
*SANDERLING - 15
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 110
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 5
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 13
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1 (juvenile)
*DUNLIN - 7
*STILT SANDPIPER - 1
dowitcher sp. - 4
Laughing Gull - 228
Ring-billed Gull - 27
Herring Gull - 173
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 2 (adult winter)
Great Black-backed Gull - 338
Caspian Tern - 163
Mourning Dove - 16
Belted Kingfisher - 1 (male)
Carolina Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 410
Common Yellowthroat - 10
Savannah Sparrow - 27
Song Sparrow - 24
Swamp Sparrow - 2
Bobolink - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 109
Common Grackle - 1
Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
American Goldfinch - 4

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

BUTTERFLIES:
Cabbage White - 4
Orange Sulphur - 10
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Pearl Crescent - 2
Common Buckeye - 18
Monarch - 20
Least Skipper - 2

MOTHS
Salt Marsh Moth - 1 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 10

DRAGONFLIES:
Seaside Dragonlet - 1
Blue Dasher - 2
Black  Saddlebags - 6

DAMSELFLIES:
bluet sp. - 100s
Rambur's Forktail - 3


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland