Observations at Hart-Miller Island
June 4, 2005
0710 - 1630
Weather: AM: mostly cloudy, 65 degrees, NE 1 K; PM: mostly sunny, 75
degrees, 0 K
Observers: Danny Bystrak, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson-Whitmyre
*SPECIES OF NOTE
Canada Goose - 119 (including 14 young)
Mute Swan - 15
Wood Duck - 4 (2 male, 2 female)
Black Duck - 10
Mallard - 197 (including 17 young)
Ruddy Duck - 14 (10 male, 5 female)
Pied-billed Grebe - 16 (7 adult, 9 downy young)
Double-crested Cormorant - 16
*LEAST BITTERN - 2 (singing)
Great Blue Heron - 12
Great Egret - 1
Cattle Egret - 5
Osprey - 15 (including 2 nestlings)
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
American Coot - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 4
Killdeer - 11
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 5
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 12 (1 nest with 4 eggs)
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 7
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 66
semi/western sandpiper sp. - 1
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 1
peep sp. - 186
*DUNLIN - 7
dowitcher sp. - 5
Laughing Gull - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 15
Herring Gull - 14
Great Black-backed Gull - 170
Caspian Tern - 177
Royal Tern - 6
Least Tern - 6
Mourning Dove -4
Chimney Swift - 2
Willow Flycatcher - 4
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 7
Purple Martin - 7
Tree Swallow - 15
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 34
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 3
American Robin - 2
Gray Catbird - 8
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 5
Cedar Waxwing - 4
Yellow Warbler - 14
Common Yellowthroat - 11
Yellow-breasted Chat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 32
Swamp Sparrow - 13
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 115
*EASTERN MEADOWLARK - 1
Common Grackle - 4 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 6
Orchard Oriole - 2
House Finch - 5
American Goldfinch - 10
MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2 (pups)
REPTILES
Painted Turtles - 4
AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 23
Southern Leopard Frog - 1
Bullfrog - 1
BUTTERFLIES
dark swallowtail sp. - 1
Cabbage White - 23
Painted Lady - 2
Silver-spotted Skipper - 2
Common Sootywing - 15
Least Skipper - 3
Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
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