Observations at Hart-Miller Island
November 27, 2004
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: sunny, 45 degrees, SSE 10K; PM: cloudy, 55 degrees, SE 10K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Pied-billed Grebe - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
*CACKLING GOOSE - 1 (2nd for the island)
Canada Goose - 344
Mute Swan - 11
Gadwall - 23
*EURASIAN WIGEON - 1 (adult male, breeding plumage)
    (1st for the island still present since 8/28/04)
    (has gone from eclipse to transitional to breeding plumage)
American Wigeon - 23
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 49
Northern Shoveler - 130
Northern Pintail - 45
Green-winged Teal - 54
Canvasback - 2 (male)
Ring-necked Duck - 2 (male)
Lesser Scaup - 5600
scaup sp. - 1000
Bufflehead - 34
Ruddy Duck - 1026
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult, in vicinity of nest)
Northern Harrier - 2 (1 adult male, 1immature)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (imm/fem)
American Kestrel - 3 (1 adult male, 2 imm/fem)
American Coot - 12
*DUNLIN - 32
Ring-billed Gull - 20
Herring Gull - 19
Great Black-backed Gull - 7
Mourning Dove - 30
Belted Kingfisher - 1 (female)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Blue Jay - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
American Robin - 1
European Starling - 163
Savannah Sparrow - 6
*"IPSWICH" SAVANNAH SPARROW - 1 (~4th for the island)
Song Sparrow - 69
White-throated Sparrow - 24
*SNOW BUNTING - 38
Red-winged Blackbird - 87
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 5

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 3
Raccoon - 1

BUTTERFLIES:
Orange Sulphur - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland