Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 16, 2004
0710 - 1650
Weather: AM: mostly sunny, 55 degrees, SW 10K; PM: mostly cloudy, 60
degrees, WNW 20K
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 - 5
Double-crested Cormorant - 8
Great Blue Heron - 5
Canada Goose - 14
Mute Swan - 12
*EURASIAN WIGEON - 1 (male)
American Wigeon - 17
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 70
Northern Shoveler - 382
Northern Pintail - 55
Green-winged Teal - 150
Greater Scaup - 38
Lesser Scaup - 44
Ruddy Duck - 810
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) in vicinity of nest
Cooper's Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 57
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 12
Killdeer - 1
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 8
*SANDERLING - 5
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 7
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 8
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 60
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 4
*DUNLIN - 77
Laughing Gull - 1060 ( steady stream arriving from the north in afternoon)
Ring-billed Gull - 10
Herring Gull - 313
Great Black-backed Gull - 161
Caspian Tern - 36
Mourning Dove - 29
Blue Jay - 8
Tree Swallow - 107
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
European Starling - 101
*AMERICAN PIPIT - 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (Myrtle)
Savannah Sparrow - 9
Song Sparrow - 9
White-throated Sparrow - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 50
Brown-headed Cowbird - 4
American Goldfinch - 13

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES:
Cabbage White - 4
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 6
Pearl Crescent - 1
Common Buckeye - 5
Monarch - 1

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth - 5 (Wooly Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 2

DAMSELFLIES:
bluet sp. - 16


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland