Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 17, 2005
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: sunny, 76 degrees,  WSW 4K; PM: mostly sunny, 88 degrees, SSW 
3K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Ben Weinstein
[BIRD SPECIES #283 ADDED TO THE ISLAND LIST]

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 15
Mute Swan - 12 (including 9 young)
Wood Duck - 37
American Black Duck - 3
Mallard - 159
Blue-winged Teal - 6
Northern Shoveler - 165
Northern Pintail - 1
Green-winged Teal - 226
Ruddy Duck - 2
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 86
Double-crested Cormorant - 80
*LEAST BITTERN - 2
Great Blue Heron - 9
Great Egret - 6
Snowy Egret - 14
Little Blue Heron - 1 (adult)
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
Osprey - 4
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*AMERICAN COOT - 2 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 12
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 77
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 10
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 153
*SANDERLING - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 387
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 3
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 3
peep sp. - 246
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 5
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 2
*STILT SANDPIPER - 45
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 2
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 17
Laughing Gull - 56
Ring-billed Gull - 86
Herring Gull -  172
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (adult)
Great Black-backed Gull - 475
Caspian Tern - 544
Mourning Dove - 11
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Tree Swallow - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Gray Catbird - 3
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 94
Yellow Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 6 (4 Yellow, 2 Western)
Common Yellowthroat - 12
Savannah Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 3
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
*BOBOLINK - 38
Red-winged Blackbird - 22
*YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD - 1 (immature male)
    [SPECIES #283 FOR THE ISLAND] [photographed by Ben]
Brown-headed Cowbird - 42
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 11 (feeding young)

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 6
Cabbage White - 14
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 11 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 207
Cloudless Sulphur - 7
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 6
Pearl Crescent - 58
American Lady - 2
Painted Lady - 11
lady sp. - 30
Buckeye - 6
Viceroy - 4
Monarch - 38
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Least Skipper - 1

MOTHS
Yellow-collared Scape - 11

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 2
Eastern Pondhawk - 87
Common Whitetail - 1
Needham's Skimmer - 5
Blue Dasher - 2
Carolina Saddlebags - 1
Black Saddlebags - 19

DAMSELFLIES
Rambur's Forktail - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland