Observations at Hart-Miller Island
April 16, 2005
0705 - 1700
Weather: AM: sunny, 45 degrees, NE 10 K; PM: sunny, 55 degrees, ENE 15 K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Stephen Del Guidice

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 11
Mute Swan - 14
Wood Duck - 1 (male)
Gadwall - 45 (22 male, 23 female)
Mallard - 36 (19 male, 17 female)
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (male)
Northern Shoveler - 10 (6 male, 4 female)
Green-winged Teal - 122
Lesser Scaup - 15 (11 male, 4 female)
Bufflehead - 3 (1 male, 2 female)
Ruddy Duck - 169
Pied-billed Grebe - 3 (adult, singing)
Double-crested Cormorant - 56
Great Blue Heron - 5
Osprey - 15
Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adults at nest; 1 immature)
Cooper's Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1 (female)
American Coot - 2
Killdeer - 5
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 27
*LITTLE GULL - 2 (adult)
Bonaparte's Gull - 617
Ring-billed Gull - 16
Herring Gull - 64
Great Black-backed Gull - 116
Caspian Tern - 87
Mourning Dove - 9
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Blue Jay - 3
Tree Swallow - 42
Barn Swallow - 5
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 1
American Robin - 2
Esatern Towhee - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 6
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 125
Common Grackle - 5 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 ( male)
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 3

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 3
Orange Sulphur - 7


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland