Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 14, 2005 (May Count)
0705 - 1655
Weather: AM: mostly cloudy, 60 degrees, SSW 15 K; PM: sunny, 75 degrees, SSE 
15 K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 24 (including 7 downy young)
Mute Swan - 23 (including 5 downy young)
Gadwall - 1 (male)
Mallard - 25 (15 male, 10 female)
Green-winged Teal - 5 (3 male, 2 female)
Lesser Scaup - 1 (male)
Pied-billed Grebe - 2 (singing)
Double-crested Cormorant - 11
Great Blue Heron - 11
*GLOSSY IBIS - 5
Turkey Vulture - 1
Osprey - 17
Bald Eagle - 2 (adults at nest)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 167
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 18
Killdeer - 5
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*WILLET -  1 (Eastern)
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 19
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 35
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 71
peep sp. - 157
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 2
*DUNLIN - 165
*CURLEW SANDPIPER - 1 ("frosty spring" to "red summer" transitional plumage)
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 6 (3 hendersoni, 3 unknown)
Laughing Gull - 1 (adult summer)
Ring-billed Gull - 15
Herring Gull - 127
Great Black-backed Gull - 128
Caspian Tern - 212
Common Tern - 1
Least Tern - 11
Mourning Dove - 6
Chimney Swift - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1 (Yellow-shafted)
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 4
Eastern Kingbird - 5
Blue Jay - 22
Fish Crow - 10
Purple Martin - 4 (2 male, 2 female)
Tree Swallow - 36
Barn Swallow - 28
Tufted Titmouse -1
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 3
Marsh Wren - 3
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 3
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 7
Yellow Warbler - 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (Myrtle)
Common Yellowthroat - 36
Eastern Towhee - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 43
Swamp Sparrow - 13
Northern Cardinal - 3 (2 male, 1 female)
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Bobolink - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 180
Common Grackle - 4 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (male)
Orchard Oriole - 4 (1 adult male, 2 1st-spring male, 1 unknown)
House Finch - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
American Goldfinch - 9

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2 (pups)

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 2
Orange Sulphur - 8
Pearl Crescent - 2
Common Sootywing - 10

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland