Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 7, 2005
0705 - 1650
Weather: AM: sunny, 45 degrees, NNE 5 K; PM: mostly sunny, 70 degrees, N 10 
K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 14
Mute Swan - 13 (courtship displaying)
Wood Duck - 1 (male)
Gadwall - 7 (6 male, 1 female)
American Black Duck - 6
Mallard - 53 (30 male, 23 female)
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (male)
Green-winged Teal - 8 (4 male, 4 female)
Lesser Scaup - 2 (male)
Pied-billed Grebe - 4 (singing)
Double-crested Cormorant - 12
Great Blue Heron - 10
*GLOSSY IBIS - 6
Turkey Vulture - 1
Osprey - 16
Bald Eagle - 2 (adults at nest)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 148
Killdeer - 4
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 5
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 5
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 2
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 434
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*DUNLIN - 69
Ring-billed Gull - 34
Herring Gull - 71
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (adult summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 13
Caspian Tern - 123
Least Tern - 12
Mourning Dove - 11
Chimney Swift - 3
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Blue Jay - 1
Fish Crow - 4
Purple Martin - 4 (2 male, 2 female)
Tree Swallow - 291
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 14
Barn Swallow - 31
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 4
House Wren - 2
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 2
European Starling - 4
Yellow Warbler - 7
Common Yellowthroat - 32
Eastern Towhee - 1
Field Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 35
Swamp Sparrow - 9
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 170
Common Grackle - 4 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 (2 male, 1 female)
Orchard Oriole - 3
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 5

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 5 (pups)
Raccoon - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 8
Orange Sulphur - 1
Spring Azure - 7
Pearl Crescent - 2
Common Sootywing - 3

MOTHS
*EIGHT-SPOTTED FORESTER - 1 (new for the Island)


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland