Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 24, 2005
0710 - 1650
Weather: AM: cloudy, 70 degrees,  ENE 10K; PM: cloudy, 75 degrees, ENE 5K
Observers: Hans Holbrook, John Hubbell, Brad Lanning, Bob Ringler, Gene 
Scarpulla, Jim Stasz, Marcia Watson-Whitmyre

*SPECIES OF NOTE

*CACKLING GOOSE - 1 (3rd for island)
Canada Goose - 228
Mute Swan - 10
Wood Duck - 60
Gadwall - 14
American Wigeon - 14
American Black Duck - 12
Black Duck/Mallard hybrid - 1
Mallard - 290
Northern Shoveler - 297
Northern Pintail - 77
Green-winged Teal - 791
Ruddy Duck - 4
Common Loon - 1
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 126
Double-crested Cormorant - 42
*GREAT CORMORANT - 1 (1st-year)
Great Blue Heron - 10
Great Egret - 13
Snowy Egret - 18
Little Blue Heron - 1 (1st year)
Osprey - 10
Bald Eagle - 5 (2 adult, 3 immature)
Northern Harrier - 2 (1 immature, 1 unknown)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Broad-winged Hawk - 1
Merlin - 4
Peregrine Falcon - 2
*SORA - 4
American Coot - 26 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 6
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 8
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 25
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 92
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 7
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 33
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 1
*SANDERLING - 5
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 167
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 73
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 16
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 4
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 11
*DUNLIN - 1
*STILT SANDPIPER - 69
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 4
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1
Laughing Gull - 4
Ring-billed Gull - 81
Herring Gull -  154
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 3 (1 1st-w, 2 ad-w)
Great Black-backed Gull - 702
Caspian Tern - 190
Royal Tern - 2
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 27
Chimney Swift - 8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Northern Flicker - 2
Tree Swallow - 54
Carolina Wren - 5
House Wren - 3
Marsh Wren - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
Gray Catbird - 4
Northern Mockingbird - 3
European Starling - 105
*AMERICAN PIPIT - 4
Cedar Waxwing - 10
Northern Parula - 1
Cape May Warbler - 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 6 (Western)
Common Yellowthroat - 27
Savannah Sparrow - 9
Song Sparrow - 21
Swamp Sparrow - 2
White-throated Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 7
Indigo Bunting - 1
*DICKCISSEL - 2
Bobolink - 29
Red-winged Blackbird - 59
Brown-headed Cowbird - 252
American Goldfinch - 10

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 3

REPTILES
Eastern Garter Snake - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 5
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 3 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 42
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 36
Eastern Tailed Blue - 4
Variegated Fritillary - 4
Pearl Crescent - 45
Painted Lady - 1
Buckeye - 15
Viceroy - 2
Monarch - 200
*LONG-TAILED SKIPPER - 1 (new for island; photographed)
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1
Common Checkered Skipper - 3
Least Skipper - 5
Sachem - 2

MOTHS
Chickweed Geometer - abundant
*POLYPHEMUS - 1 (caterpillar; new for island)
Isabella Tiger - 4 (Woolly Bear caterpillar)
Salt Marsh - 1 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Virginian Tiger - 6 (Yellow Bear caterpillar)
Yellow-collared Scape - 25
*SOYBEAN LOOPER - 1 (new for island)
Smeared Dagger - 6 (Smartweed Caterpillar)
*STALK BORER - 1 (new for island)
*TOBACCO BUDWORM - 1 (new for island)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 2
Blue Dasher - 2
Spot-winged Glider - 1
Black Saddlebags - 6

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 10
Rambur's Forktail - 18


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland