Observations at Hart-Miller Island
June 11, 2005
0705 - 1510
Weather: AM: sunny, 75 degrees, SSE 10K; PM: sunny, 85 degrees, S 10K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 232 (including 18 young)
Mute Swan - 21
Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 264 (including 8 young)
Ruddy Duck - 3 (2 male, 1 female)
Pied-billed Grebe - 13 (9 adult, 4 downy young)
Double-crested Cormorant - 17
Great Blue Heron - 19
Great Egret - 10
Snowy Egret - 2
*LITTLE BLUE HERON - 1 (1st-spring calico plumage)
Cattle Egret - 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2
Osprey - 21 (including 3 nestlings)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 1
Killdeer - 4
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 5
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 3
*DUNLIN - 1
Laughing Gull - 64
Ring-billed Gull - 11
Herring Gull - 78
Great Black-backed Gull - 414
Caspian Tern - 148
Royal Tern - 1
Mourning Dove -12
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 3
Eastern Kingbird - 6
Fish Crow - 2
Purple Martin - 8
Tree Swallow -  19
Barn Swallow - 15
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 4
Marsh Wren - 7
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 3
European Starling - 1
Yellow Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 26
Song Sparrow - 52
*SWAMP SPARROW - 19 (Coastal Plain race on territory)
Northern Cardinal - 1
*DICKCISSEL - 1 (adult male, singing)
Red-winged Blackbird - 138
Common Grackle - 7 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 (male)
Orchard Oriole - 1
House Finch - 5
American Goldfinch -10

REPTILES
Painted Turtles - 4

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 1 (male)
Cabbage White - 66
Orange Sulphur - 68
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Monarch - 3
Common Sootywing - 3

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 9
Eastern Pondhawk - 2
Seaside Dragonlet - 12
Needham's Skimmer - 61
Blue Dasher - 6
Carolina Saddlebags - 3
Black Saddlebags - 32


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland