Observations at Hart-Miller Island
December 18, 2004
0710 - 1650
Weather: AM: sunny, 30 degrees, NE 3 K; PM: sunny, 50 degrees, 0 K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla
(part of the Baltimore Harbor Christmas Bird Count)

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Pied-billed Grebe - 3
Great Blue Heron - 1
Canada Goose - 231
Mute Swan - 6
Gadwall - 22
*EURASIAN WIGEON - 1 (adult male, breeding plumage)
American Wigeon - 29
American Black Duck - 39
Mallard - 346
Northern Shoveler - 9
Northern Pintail - 9
Green-winged Teal - 41
Canvasback - 5
Ring-necked Duck - 2
Greater Scaup - 9
Lesser Scaup - 4000
scaup sp. - 650
Bufflehead - 44
Ruddy Duck - 539
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult; carrying nest material)
    [former nest has been destroyed by wind]
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1
American Coot - 308
*DUNLIN - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 47
Herring Gull - 31
Great Black-backed Gull - 10
Mourning Dove - 31
Belted Kingfisher - 1 (male)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Blue Jay - 11
American Crow - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 4
Tufted Titmouse - 8
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
Brown Creeper - 1
Carolina Wren - 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
American Robin - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 87
Eastern Towhee - 5
Song Sparrow - 64
Swamp Sparrow - 2
White-throated Sparrow - 48
*SNOW BUNTING - 93
Northern Cardinal - 7
Red-winged Blackbird - 132
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 43

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland