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Hart-Miller Island: April 9, 2005

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Eugene J. Scarpulla

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Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:11:08 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
April 9, 2005
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: sunny, 50 degrees, NE 15 K; PM: sunny, 65 degrees, E 5 K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 11
Mute Swan - 32 (courtship display)
Wood Duck - 1 (male)
Gadwall - 51 (40 male, 11 female)
American Wigeon - 15 (10 male, 5 female)
Mallard - 23 (12 male, 11 female)
Blue-winged Teal - 5 (3 male, 2 female)
Northern Shoveler - 29 (17 male, 12 female)
Green-winged Teal - 25 (14 male, 11 female)
Greater Scaup - 11 (6 male, 5 female)
Lesser Scaup - 10 (8 male, 2 female)
scaup sp. - 16 (11 male, 5 female)
Bufflehead - 37 (15 male, 22 female)
Red-breasted Merganser - 6 (female)
Ruddy Duck - 709
Pied-billed Grebe - 6 (adult, singing)
Double-crested Cormorant - 93
Great Blue Heron - 6
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 (calling)
Osprey - 12 (at least 6 nests)
Bald Eagle - 2 (adults at nest)
Northern Harrier - 2 (1 female, 1 immature)
American Coot - 56 (calling)
Killdeer - 7
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LITTLE GULL - 4 (adult)
Bonaparte's Gull - 616
Ring-billed Gull - 87
Herring Gull - 185
Great Black-backed Gull - 42
Caspian Tern - 75
Mourning Dove - 12
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Blue Jay - 1
Fish Crow - 2
crow sp - 2
Tree Swallow - 30
Barn Swallow - 3
Carolina Wren - 6
American Robin - 2
Esatern Towhee - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 13
Song Sparrow - 13
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 90
Common Grackle - 3 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 8 (3 male, 5 female)
American Goldfinch - 3

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Southern Leopard Frog - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland