Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 3, 2005
0715 - 1650
Weather: AM: mostly sunny, 67 degrees,  NNW 5K; PM: sunny, 85 degrees, NW 5K
Observers: Frode Jacobsen (Norway), Mark Linardi, Paul Noell, Gene 
Scarpulla, Fred Shaffer, Jim Stasz, Sherman Suter, Debbie Terry, Marcia 
Watson-Whitmyre, Leo Weigant
[Baltimore Bird Club Field Trip]

* [species of shorebirds - 21]
* [tied all-time high day of identified species - 98]
* [all-time high day of identified and unidentified sp. (small sterna, crow, 
empid) species - 101]
* [OBSERVERS PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF I MISSED LISTING ANY SPECIES]

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 21
Mute Swan - 10 (including 6 young)
Wood Duck - 2
Gadwall - 1
American Black Duck - 9
American Black Duck/Mallard hybrid - 5
Mallard - 149
Blue-winged Teal - 19
Northern Shoveler - 133
Green-winged Teal - 159
Ruddy Duck - 6
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 85 (new island [state?] high)
Double-crested Cormorant - 13
*LEAST BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 6
Great Egret - 13
Snowy Egret - 6
Turkey Vulture - 1
Osprey - 5
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 4 (1 male, 1 female, 2 immature)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
Cooper's Hawk - 5
American Kestrel - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*SORA - 1
*AMERICAN COOT - 26 (17 adult, 9 young)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 16
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 9
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 62
Killdeer - 9
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 65
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 119
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 4
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 3
*SANDERLING - 7
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 470
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 67
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 88
peep sp. - 340
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 5
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 4
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 27
*STILT SANDPIPER - 32
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 13
*RUFF - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 55
*WILSON'S SNIPE - 1
Laughing Gull - 80
Ring-billed Gull - 98
Herring Gull - 132
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (adult)
Great Black-backed Gull - 216
Caspian Tern - 679
small Sterna sp. - 6
Least Tern - 1
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 11
Eastern Screech Owl - 1 (2nd island record)
Chimney Swift - 7
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Wood Pewee - 1
empid flycatcher sp. - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Blue Jay - 1
crow sp. - 1
Purple Martin - 4
Tree Swallow - 21
Bank Swallow - 3
Cliff Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 60
Carolina Chickadee - 3
Carolina Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4
Swainson's Thrush - 1
Gray Catbird - 4
Northern Mockingbird - 3
European Starling - 125
Cedar Waxwing - 6
Yellow Warbler - 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3
Magnolia Warbler - 3
American Redstart - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 10
Canada Warbler - 2
Yellow-breasted Chat - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 6
Swamp Sparrow - 2
Northern Cardinal - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Blue Grosbeak - 5
Indigo Bunting - 1
*BOBOLINK - 30
Red-winged Blackbird - 75
Common Grackle - 6
Brown-headed Cowbird - 11
Orchard Oriole - 1
Baltimore Oriole - 1
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 10

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

REPTILES
Painted Turtle - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 9
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 4 (2 yellow; 2 black female)
Spicebush Swallowtail - 5
*PALAMEDES SWALLOWTAIL - 1 (possibly 2 more) [new for island]
Checkered White - 8
Cabbage White - 8
Clouded Sulphur - 3
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 2 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 205
Cloudless Sulphur - 4
Gray Hairstreak - 10
Eastern Tailed Blue - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 14
Pearl Crescent - 155
American Lady - 3
Painted Lady - 8
Red Admiral - 2
Buckeye - 2
Viceroy - 2
*COMMON WOOD NYMPH - 1 (southern form) [new for island]
Monarch - 24
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Least Skipper - 1
Sachem - 7

MOTHS
*SNOWBERRY CLEARWING - 1 [new for island]

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 6
Swamp Darner - 1
Halloween Pennant - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 56
Seaside Dragonlet - 1
Common Whitetail - 2
Needham's Skimmer - 64
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 2
Blue Dasher - 99
Spot-winged Glider - 1
Black Saddlebags - 71

DAMSELFLIES
Rambur's Forktail - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland