Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 9, 2004
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: cloudy, 64 degrees, SSW 5K; PM: cloudy, 70 degrees, SSW 5K
Observer: 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 - 8
Double-crested Cormorant - 44
Great Blue Heron - 6
Canada Goose - 120
Mute Swan - 2
Gadwall - 7
*EURASIAN WIGEON - 1 (male; breeding plumage)
American Wigeon - 23
American Black Duck - 13
Mallard - 144
Northern Shoveler - 310
Northern Pintail - 418
Green-winged Teal - 12
Greater Scaup - 10
Ruddy Duck - 409
duck sp. - 200
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) in vicinity of nest
Peregrine Falcon - 3 (1 adult, 2 immature)
American Coot - 1
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 61
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 4
Killdeer - 4
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 7
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 70
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 12
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 27
*DUNLIN - 31
*STILT SANDPIPER - 1
Laughing Gull - 70
Ring-billed Gull - 52
Herring Gull - 257
Great Black-backed Gull - 437
Caspian Tern - 60
Mourning Dove - 19
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 1
Tree Swallow - 86
Barn Swallow - 2
Carolina Wren - 1
European Starling - 3
Common Yellowthroat - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 33
Song Sparrow - 21
*LINCOLN'S SPARROW - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 8
Red-winged Blackbird - 225
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
American Goldfinch - 7

MAMMALS
Coyote - fresh tracks
Red Fox - 2
Raccoon - fresh tracks
White-tailed Deer - fresh tracks

BUTTERFLIES:
Cabbage White - 16
Orange Sulphur - 14
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Pearl Crescent - 4
Painted Lady - 1
Common Buckeye - 25
Monarch - 14

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth - 18 (Wooly Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 6

DAMSELFLIES:
bluet sp. - 40
Rambur's Forktail - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland