Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 21, 2005
0710 - 1650
Weather: Partly Cloudy, high around 74 degrees, NW 14 K

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Common Loon - 2
Pied-billed Grebe - 2 (singing)
Canada Goose - 20
Mute Swan - 14
Gadwall - 4
American Wigeon - 1
Mallard 21
Red-breasted Merganser - 1
Ruddy Duck - 5
Double-crested Cormorant - 11
Great Blue Heron - 10
Great Egret - 2
Snowy Egret - 1
*TRICOLORED HERON - 1
Cattle Egret - 1
Osprey - 14
Bald Eagle - 3 (1 ad., 2 imm.)
*MERLIN - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
American Coot - 1
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 64
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 28
Killdeer - 6
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 19
*WHIMBREL - 69 (4 on island, 65 headed North)
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*RED KNOT - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 217
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 25
peep sp. - 250
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 5
*DUNLIN - 220
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 115 (100 griseus, 15 hendersoni)
Ring-billed Gull - 20
Herring Gull - 28
Great Black-backed Gull - 54
Caspian Tern - 155
*ROSEATE TERN - 1 (2nd year bird, flybye)
Common Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 1
Least Tern - 15
*BLACK SKIMMER - 1 (hanging out with Caspian Terns)
*ROCK PIGEON - 1 (silver band on one leg, green band on other)
Mourning Dove - 2
Chimney Swift - 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Great-crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird - 9
crow sp. - 1
Purple Martin - 4
Tree Swallow - 40
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
Bank Swallow - 13
Barn Swallow - 45
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 2
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 2
European Starling - 9
Yellow Warbler - 13
Myrtle Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 28
Song Sparrow - 54
Swamp Sparrow - 26
Northern Cardinal - 1
Bobolink - 8
Red-winged Blackbird - 110
Common Grackle - 4
Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
Orchard Oriole - 4
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 9

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 4 (pups)

BUTTERFLIES
Orange Sulfur - 4
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Common Sootywing - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 3


Mike Burchett
Churchville, MD
Harford Co.