Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 22, 2004
0710 - 1655
Observers: Ed Boyd, Mike Burchett, and Jim Stasz
(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

Double-crested Cormorant - 4
Great Blue Heron - 52
Great Egret - 2
Cattle Egret - 8
Turkey Vulture - 3
Canada Goose - 43
Mute Swan - 1
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 54
Osprey - 4
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 338
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 4
Killdeer - 2
GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 6
LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 3
Solitary Sandpiper - 1
Spotted Sandpiper - 18
WHIMBREL - 5
RED KNOT - 1
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 603
LEAST SANDPIPER - 4
DUNLIN - 802
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 6
WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1
Bonaparte's Gull - 6
Ring-billed Gull - 645
Herring Gull - 608
Great Black-backed Gull - 242
Caspian Tern - 112
Forster's Tern - 1
Least Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 2
Eastern Wood-pewee - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Great-crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1
Fish Crow - 1
Tree Swallow - 5
Bank Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 1
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 8
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 1
European Starling - 4
Yellow Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1
NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW - 1   Probable first island record!
Song Sparrow - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 7
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Bobolink - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 75
Common Grackle - 1
Brown-headed Cowbird - 6
Orchard Oriole - 2
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 2


Mike Burchett
Churchville, MD