Observations at Hart-Miller Island
March 26, 2005
0705 - 1700
Weather: AM: cloudy, 43 degrees, ESE 5 K; PM; cloudy, 50 degrees, ENE 5 K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 65
Mute Swan - 29 (courtship display)
Tundra Swan - 71 (66 adult, 5 immature)
Gadwall - 40
American Wigeon - 65
American Black Duck - 15
Mallard - 83
Blue-winged Teal - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Northern Shoveler - 72
Green-winged Teal - 147
Ring-necked Duck - 34 (19 males, 15 females)
Greater Scaup - 1060
Lesser Scaup - 250
scaup sp. - 1600
Bufflehead - 39
Red-breasted Merganser - 1 (male)
Ruddy Duck - 477
Pied-billed Grebe - 4 (singing)
Horned Grebe - 2 (winter plumage)
*EARED GREBE - 1 (winter plumage)
Double-crested Cormorant - 11
Great Blue Heron - 4
Osprey - 10
Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adults at nest; 1 subadult)
Northern Harrier - 1 (female)
American Kestrel - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adults at nest site [Craighill Channel Rear Range 
Light])
American Coot - 15
Killdeer - 7
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*DUNLIN - 7
Bonaparte's Gull - 255
Ring-billed Gull - 13
Herring Gull - 241
Great Black-backed Gull - 57
Mourning Dove - 5
Blue Jay - 1
Tree Swallow - 22
Carolina Wren - 2
European Starling - 17
*AMERICAN PIPIT - 5
Savannah Sparrow - 4
Song Sparrow - 47
White-throated Sparrow - 2
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 198
Common Grackle - 5 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (male)


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland