Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 9, 2005
0710 - 1705
Weather: AM: sunny, 73 degrees, 0 K; PM: sunny, 85 degrees, S 5K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla
*SPECIES OF NOTE
Canada Goose - 283
Mute Swan - 1
Wood Duck - 1
Mallard - 375 (including 17 young)
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 69 (6 adult, 21 young, 47 unknown)
Double-crested Cormorant - 8
*LEAST BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 23
Great Egret - 7
*LITTLE BLUE HERON - 1 (adult)
*GLOSSY IBIS - 3
Osprey - 20 (15 adult, 5 nestling)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 1
Killdeer - 9
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 15
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 11
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 23 (20 adult, 3 downy young)
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 114
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 17 (3 hendersoni, 14 unknown)
Laughing Gull - 39
Ring-billed Gull - 175
Herring Gull - 10
Great Black-backed Gull - 322
Caspian Tern - 104
Royal Tern - 3
Least Tern - 9
Mourning Dove - 9
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 5
Fish Crow - 1
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 37
Barn Swallow - 32
Carolina Wren - 3
House Wren - 6
Marsh Wren - 9
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 4
European Starling - 12
Yellow Warbler - 6
Common Yellowthroat - 26
Song Sparrow - 67
Swamp Sparrow - 27
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 212
Common Grackle - 5 (Purple)
Orchard Oriole - 2
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 14
MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
REPTILES
Painted Turtles - 2
AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 3
Bullfrog - 1
BUTTERFLIES
Zebra Swallowtail - 1
Black Swallowtail - 1 (male)
Checkered White - 3
Cabbage White - 80
Clouded Sulphur - 3
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 69
Summer Azure - 1
American Snout - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 1
lady sp. - 4
Red Admiral - 2
Monarch - 5
Common Sootywing - 1
MOTHS
Virginia Ctenucha Moth - 1
DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 8
Halloween Pennant - 2
Eastern Pondhawk - 6
Needham's Skimmer - 291
Blue Dasher - 277
Carolina Saddlebags - 1
Black Saddlebags - 79
DAMSELFLIES
bluet sp. - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 1
Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
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