Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 6, 2005
0715 - 1655
Weather: AM: cloudy, 75 degrees,  N 5K; PM: sunny, 85 degrees, ENE 15K
Observers: Don Burggraf, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 122
Mute Swan - 11 (including 8 young)
Wood Duck - 2 (male)
Gadwall - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
American Black Duck - 1
Mallard - 442
Green-winged Teal - 3
Ruddy Duck - 8
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 51
Double-crested Cormorant - 21
*LEAST BITTERN - 3
Great Blue Heron - 7
Great Egret - 3
Cattle Egret - 1
Osprey - 7
*AMERICAN COOT - 6 (2 adult, 4 young)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 27
Killdeer - 4
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 38
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 47
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 197
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 11
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 835
semipalmated/western peep sp. - 1045
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 4
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 25
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 2
*STILT SANDPIPER - 7
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 40
Laughing Gull - 72
Ring-billed Gull - 340
Herring Gull - 14
Great Black-backed Gull - 1094
Caspian Tern - 190
Forster's Tern - 17
Least Tern - 2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile)
*BLACK TERN - 6
Mourning Dove - 12
Eastern Kingbird - 10
Purple Martin - 6
Tree Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 9
Barn Swallow - 48
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 1
European Starling - 220
Common Yellowthroat - 12
Song Sparrow - 38
Swamp Sparrow - 15
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 55
Brown-headed Cowbird - 8
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 6

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 5
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 (yellow)
Spicebush Swallowtail - 4
dark swallowtail sp. - 1
Cabbage White - 55
Clouded Sulphur - 2
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 6 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 105
Cloudless Sulphur - 2
Eastern Tailed Blue - 4
Summer Azure - 4
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 2
lady sp. - 1
Viceroy - 1
Monarch - 13
Silver-spotted Skipper - 3

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 20
Calico Pennant - 1
Halloween Pennant - 5
Eastern Pondhawk - 2
Needham's Skimmer - 70
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 1 (male)
Blue Dasher - 35
Black Saddlebags - 35

DAMSELFLIES
bluet sp. - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 3-


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland