Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 2, 2005
0715 - 1640
Weather: AM: partly sunny, 77 degrees, NNW 10K; PM: partly sunny, 85 
degrees, NE 5K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson-Whitmyre

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 123
Mute Swan - 6 (including 3 young)
Wood Duck - 5
Black Duck - 13
Mallard - 288
Ruddy Duck - 3
Pied-billed Grebe - 29 (17 adult, 12 young)
Double-crested Cormorant - 17
Great Blue Heron - 17
Great Egret - 4
Snowy Egret - 2
Glossy Ibis - 3
Osprey - 22 (including 7 nestlings)
Killdeer - 30
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 16
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 7
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 111
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 1
*DUNLIN - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 8 (hendersoni)
Laughing Gull - 103
Ring-billed Gull - 350
Herring Gull - 18
Great Black-backed Gull - 398
Caspian Tern - 70
Common Tern - 3
Forster's Tern - 3
Least Tern - 10
Mourning Dove - 7
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 5
Purple Martin - 20
Tree Swallow - 6
Barn Swallow - 18
Carolina  Chickadee - 3
Carolina Wren - 3
House Wren - 3
Marsh Wren - 12
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 4
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 2
Yellow Warbler - 11
Common Yellowthroat - 29
Yellow-breasted  Chat - 2
Song Sparrow - 51
Swamp Sparrow - 12
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 140
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
Orchard Oriole - 2
House Finch - 8
American Goldfinch - 15

AMPHIBIANS
Southern Leopard Frog - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 22
Orange Sulphur - 27

MOTHS
Virginia Ctenucha Moth - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 8
Needham's Skimmer - 12
Blue Dasher - 31
Black Saddlebags - 53


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland