Observations at Hart-Miller Island
March 19, 2005
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: sunny, 35 degrees, NE 5 K; PM; sunny, 55 degrees, NE 5 K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Pied-billed Grebe - 1 (breeding plumage; singing)
Double-crested Cormorant - 3
Great Blue Heron - 4
Canada Goose - 67
Mute Swan - 18 (courtship display; territorial chasing Tundra Swans)
Tundra Swan - 19
Gadwall - 52
American Wigeon - 104
American Black Duck - 27
Mallard - 33
Northern Shoveler - 48
Northern Pintail - 27
Green-winged Teal - 223
Redhead - 4 (2 males, 2 females)
Ring-necked Duck - 6 (4 males, 2 females)
Greater Scaup - 2200
Lesser Scaup - 27
scaup sp. - 1360
Bufflehead - 58
Common Goldeneye - 23
Hooded Merganser - 3 (1 male, 2 female)
Ruddy Duck - 16
Osprey - 4
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult; one on nest)
Northern Harrier - 1 (female)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
American Coot - 51
Killdeer - 9
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*WILSON'S SNIPE - 2
Bonaparte's Gull - 70 (winter plumage)
Ring-billed Gull - 93
Herring Gull - 95
Great Black-backed Gull - 11
Mourning Dove - 3
Blue Jay - 1
Tree Swallow - 11 (at nest boxes)
Carolina Wren - 4
European Starling - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 3
Song Sparrow - 32
*SNOW BUNTING - 3
Northern Cardinal - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 280
Common Grackle - 5
American Goldfinch - 1

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Spring Peeper - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland