Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 30, 2005
0715 - 1655
Weather: AM: cloudy, 75 degrees,  ENE 10K; PM: sunny, 85 degrees, ENE 10K
Observers: Danny Bystrak, Gene Scarpulla, Jeff Shenot, Jim Stasz, Marcia 
Watson-Whitmyre

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 253
Mute Swan - 16 (including 9 young)
Wood Duck - 7
Gadwall - 4
American Wigeon - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
American Black Duck - 27
American Black Duck/Mallard hybrid - 1
Mallard - 298
Green-winged Teal - 4
Ruddy Duck - 4 (3 male, 1 female)
Pied-billed Grebe - 49
Double-crested Cormorant - 9
*LEAST BITTERN - 8
Great Blue Heron - 13
Great Egret - 3
Snowy Egret - 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 (adult)
Osprey - 11
Bald Eagle - 2 (immature)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 5
Killdeer - 3
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 24
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 59
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 12
*MARBLED GODWIT - 1 (juvenile)
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 529
semipalmated/western peep sp. - 42
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 27
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 282
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 3
peep sp. - 100
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 1
*STILT SANDPIPER - 3
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 34
Laughing Gull - 71
Ring-billed Gull - 254
Herring Gull - 9
Great Black-backed Gull - 887
Caspian Tern - 138
Royal Tern - 1
Common Tern - 2
Forster's Tern - 11
Least Tern - 3
Mourning Dove - 26
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 15
Purple Martin - 14
Tree Swallow - 2
Bank Swallow - 10
Barn Swallow - 29
Carolina Wren - 3
House Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 9
Gray Catbird - 7
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 11
Yellow Warbler - 7
Common Yellowthroat - 31
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 56
Swamp Sparrow - 39
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 4
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 237
Brown-headed Cowbird - 11
Orchard Oriole - 6
House Finch - 8
American Goldfinch - 18

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
Raccoon - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 10

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 9
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 5 (3 yellow; 2 black female)
Spicebush Swallowtail - 7
dark swallowtail sp. - 5
Checkered White - 9
Cabbage White - 109
Clouded Sulphur - 4
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 3 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 137
Cloudless Sulphur - 4
Gray Hairstreak - 10
Eastern Tailed Blue - 39
Summer Azure - 2
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 19
American Lady - 3
Painted Lady - 2
Red Admiral - 1
Common Buckeye - 1
Red-spotted Purple - 2
Viceroy - 1
Monarch - 75
Silver-spotted Skipper - 10
Common Sootywing - 6
Least Skipper - 1
Broad-winged skipper - 4

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 21
Halloween Pennant - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 5
Needham's Skimmer - 23
Blue Dasher - 60
Black Saddlebags - 38

DAMSELFLIES
bluet sp. - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 4


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland