Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 28, 2005
0715 - 1630
Weather: AM: sunny, 65 degrees, SE 1 K; PM: mostly cloudy, 75 degrees, SSE 5 
K
Observers: Mike Burchett, Don Burggraf, Ray Edwards, Tom Feild, Adam Goold, 
(Queens, NY), Kevin Graff, Bill Hubick, Brad Lanning, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 37 (including 5 downy young)
Mute Swan - 27 (including 8 downy young)
Wood Duck - 7 (3 male, 4 female) [P - probable]
Black Duck - 17
Mallard - 109
Canvasback - 1 (male)
Greater Scaup - 1 (female)
Hooded Merganser - 1 (female)
Ruddy Duck - 5 (male)
Common Loon - 2
Pied-billed Grebe - 8 (5 adults singing, 3 juveniles) [FL - confirmed]
Double-crested Cormorant - 21
Great Blue Heron - 6
Great Egret - 3
Snowy Egret - 1
Cattle Egret - 4
*GLOSSY IBIS - 3
Osprey - 14 (including 2 nestlings)
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
American Coot - 6
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 204
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 15
Killdeer - 5 (1 flushed from nest)
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 16 (at least 3 flushed from nests)
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 7
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 324
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 4
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 10
peep sp. - 121
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 5
*DUNLIN - 995
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 7 (hendersoni)
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1 (male)
Laughing Gull - 1 (adult summer)
Ring-billed Gull - 28
Herring Gull - 18
Great Black-backed Gull - 107
Caspian Tern - 198
Royal Tern - 4
Common Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 1
Least Tern - 20
Mourning Dove - 11
Common Nighthhawk - 1
Chimney Swift - 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 7
Fish Crow - 4
Purple Martin - 2
Tree Swallow - 33
Barn Swallow - 14
Carolina Wren - 1
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 2
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 26
Cedar Waxwing - 10
Yellow Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 12
Song Sparrow - 17
Swamp Sparrow - 9
Northern Cardinal - 2
Indigo Bunting - 3
Bobolink - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 80
Common Grackle - 4 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 (male)
Orchard Oriole - 1
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 5

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 3

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 7

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 4
Orange Sulphur - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Common Sootywing - 3

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland