Observations at Hart-Miller Island
December 11, 2004
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: cloudy, 45 degrees, 0 K; PM: partly sunny, 55 degrees, NW 10K
Observers: Kevin Graff, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Pied-billed Grebe - 6
Double-creasted Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron - 3
Snow Goose - 1
Canada Goose - 293
Mute Swan - 3
Gadwall - 28
*EURASIAN WIGEON - 1 (adult male, breeding plumage)
American Wigeon - 64
American Black Duck - 37
Mallard - 367
Northern Shoveler - 31
Northern Pintail - 22
Green-winged Teal - 42
Lesser Scaup - 4350
scaup sp. - 1800
Long-tailed Duck - 1
Bufflehead - 52
Ruddy Duck - 460
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult, in vicinity of former nest)
Northern Harrier - 3 (1 adult male, 2 immature)
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (adult)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (adult)
American Kestrel - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
American Coot - 192
*DUNLIN - 10
Bonaparte's Gull - 72
Ring-billed Gull - 1
Herring Gull - 73
Great Black-backed Gull - 10
Mourning Dove - 50
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 2
Blue Jay - 4
*CAVE SWALLOW - 1 (island species #282)
Tufted Titmouse - 2
Carolina Wren - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
European Starling - 167
Savannah Sparrow - 9
Song Sparrow - 134
Swamp Sparrow - 3
White-throated Sparrow - 9
White-crowned Sparrow - 1
sparrow sp. - 40
*SNOW BUNTING - 48
Red-winged Blackbird - 94
Brown-headed Cowbird - 44
House Finch - 31
American Goldfinch - 101

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 4

MOTHS:
Isabella Tiger Moth: 1 (Wooly Bear)


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland