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Hart-Miller Island: August 13, 2005

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Eugene J. Scarpulla

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Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:09:39 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 13, 2005
0715 - 1655
Weather: AM: sunny, 82 degrees,  SSW 5K; PM: sunny, 95 degrees, WSW 5K
Observers (South Cell): Matt Hafner, Hans Holbrook, Gene Scarpulla
Observers (North Cell): Matt Hafner, Hans Holbrook

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 56
Mute Swan - 7 (including 4 young)
Wood Duck - 19
American Black Duck - 4
American Black Duck/Mallard hybrid - 6
Mallard - 500
Blue-winged Teal - 3
Northern Shoveler - 6
Northern Pintail - 1
Green-winged Teal - 1
Canvasback - 1 (female)
Ruddy Duck - 4
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 68
Double-crested Cormorant - 47
*LEAST BITTERN - 3
Great Blue Heron - 3
Great Egret - 1
Snowy Egret - 1
Cattle Egret - 1
Osprey - 9
*AMERICAN COOT - 8 (5 adult, 3 young) [2A+2Y; 1A+1Y; 2A]
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 16
Killdeer - 17
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 43
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 23
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 271
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 13
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 3020 (E)
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 333 (E)
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 777 (E)
peep sp. - 1000 (E)
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 5
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 9
*DUNLIN - 1 (basic plumage with black belly)
*STILT SANDPIPER - 70
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 47
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 2 (breeding plumage)
Laughing Gull - 116
Ring-billed Gull - 213
Herring Gull - 25
Great Black-backed Gull - 867
Caspian Tern - 352
Common Tern - 3
Forster's Tern - 29
Mourning Dove - 39
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3
Eastern Kingbird - 3
Purple Martin - 24
Tree Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 50
Barn Swallow - 115
Carolina Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 2
European Starling - 45
Yellow Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 4
Song Sparrow - 25
Swamp Sparrow - 16
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 2
*BOBOLINK - 27
Red-winged Blackbird - 128
Brown-headed Cowbird - 25
Orchard Oriole - 1
House Finch - 7
American Goldfinch - 7

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
Raccoon - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 5

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 16
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
Checkered White - 6
Cabbage White - 14
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 7 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 205
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 31
Eastern Tailed Blue - 30
Variegated Fritillary - 12
Pearl Crescent - 45
American Lady - 4
Painted Lady - 1
Buckeye - 4
Viceroy - 2
Monarch - 76
Silver-spotted Skipper - 3
Least Skipper - 2

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth - 1 (Woolly Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 1
*COMMON SPRAGUEIA - 2 (new for island)
*CLOVER LOOPER - 1 (new for island)
*BALTIMORE BOMOLOCHA - 1 (new for island)
*CHICKWEED GEOMETER - 30 (new for island)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 25
Calico Pennant - 3
Halloween Pennant - 7
Eastern Pondhawk - 150 (E)
Common Whitetail - 2
Needham's Skimmer - 100 (E)
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 6
Blue Dasher - 200 (E)
Spot-winged Glider - 100 (E)
Carolina Saddlebags - 6
*RED SADDLEBAGS - 1 [Hans will be researching this a bit more to confirm.]
Black Saddlebags - 75 (E)

DAMSELFLIES
bluet sp. - 3
Rambur's Forktail - 40


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland