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Hart-Miller Island: July 16, 2005

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Eugene J. Scarpulla

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Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:40:52 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 16, 2005
0705 - 1330
Weather: AM: cloudy, 78 degrees,  E 1K; PM: cloudy, 84 degrees, E 1K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

[NOTE: survey cut short due to thunderstorms]

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 271
Mute Swan - 6 (including 3 young)
Mallard - 250
Ruddy Duck - 2 (male)
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 46
Double-crested Cormorant - 8
Great Blue Heron - 13
Great Egret - 4
Snowy Egret - 2
Green Heron - 1
Osprey - 16 (including 4 nestling)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 1
Killdeer - 5
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 40
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 7
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 25
peep sp. - 50 (estimate)
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 78
Laughing Gull - 208
Ring-billed Gull - 260
Herring Gull - 3
Great Black-backed Gull - 500
Caspian Tern - 70
Royal Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 53
Least Tern - 18
Mourning Dove - 7
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 4
Purple Martin - 3
Tree Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 27
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 3
Marsh Wren - 3
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 4
European Starling - 5
Common Yellowthroat - 14
Song Sparrow - 32
Swamp Sparrow - 14
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 196
Brown-headed Cowbird - 18
House Finch - 5
American Goldfinch - 8

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Spicebush Swallowtail - 3
Checkered White - 2
Cabbage White - 18
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 86
Gray Hairstreak - 4
lady sp. - 1
Red Admiral - 1
Monarch - 4
Common Sootywing - 1

MOTHS
Virginia Ctenucha Moth - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Halloween Pennant - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 2
Needham's Skimmer - 89
Blue Dasher - 31
Black Saddlebags - 8

DAMSELFLIES
bluet sp. - 1
Rambur's Forktail - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland