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Hart-Miller Island: October 23, 2004

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Maryland Birds & Birding

Date:

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:18:57 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 23, 2004
0710 - 1650
Weather: AM: sunny, 50 degrees, NE 10K; PM: sunny, 65 degrees, ESE 2K
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 - 9
Double-crested Cormorant - 21
Great Blue Heron - 2
Canada Goose - 121
Mute Swan - 12
Gadwall - 19
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 64
Northern Shoveler - 219
Northern Pintail - 8
Green-winged Teal - 63
Greater Scaup - 2
Lesser Scaup - 121
scaup sp. - 62
Ruddy Duck - 1053
Northern Harrier - 1 (immature)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
American Coot - 12
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 72
*GREATER  YELLOWLEGS - 5
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 6
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 1
*SANDERLING - 3
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 7
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 6
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 2
*DUNLIN - 95
Laughing Gull - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 6
Herring Gull - 99
Great Black-backed Gull - 18
Caspian Tern - 8
Mourning Dove - 5
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 3 (Yellow-shafted)
Blue Jay - 13
Tree Swallow - 16
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
American Robin - 1
European Starling - 92
*AMERICAN PIPIT - 11
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 (Myrtle)
Palm Warbler - 1 (Yellow)
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 3
*VESPER SPARROW - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 49
*LINCOLN'S SPARROW - 2
Swamp Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 2
Dark-eyed Junco - 7 (Slate-colored)
Red-winged Blackbird - 115
House Finch - 12
American Goldfinch - 39

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES:
Cabbage White - 48
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 7 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 39
Pearl Crescent - 3
Common Buckeye - 8
Monarch - 1

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth - 1 (Wooly Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 7


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland