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Hart-Miller Island: October 1, 2005

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Eugene J. Scarpulla

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Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:45:58 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 1, 2005
0715 - 1645
Weather: AM: sunny, 57 degrees,  ENE 5K; PM: sunny, 80 degrees, SSE 2K
Observers: Danny Bystrak, Sarel Cousins, Barbara Gearhart, Bob Holbrook, 
Hans Holbrook, Jeremy Jones, Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz, Mike Welch

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 19
Mute Swan - 12
Wood Duck - 6
Gadwall - 10
American Wigeon - 6
American Black Duck - 5
Black Duck/Mallard hybrid - 1
Mallard - 42
Blue-winged Teal - 3
Northern Shoveler - 359
Northern Pintail - 64
Green-winged Teal - 348
Ring-necked Duck - 2
Ruddy Duck - 14
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 101
Double-crested Cormorant - 56
*GREAT CORMORANT - 1 (1st-year)
Great Blue Heron - 13
Great Egret - 1
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
Northern Harrier - 2 (1 immature, 1 unknown)
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adult on Craighill Channel Rear Range Light)
*SORA - 3
*COMMON MOORHEN - 1
American Coot - 24
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 9
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 7
Killdeer - 5
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 86
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 1
*SANDERLING - 6
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 9
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 4
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 23
peep sp. - 15
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 7
*DUNLIN - 8
*STILT SANDPIPER - 6
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1
*WILSON'S SNIPE - 1
Laughing Gull - 10
Ring-billed Gull - 76
Herring Gull -  87
Great Black-backed Gull - 220
Caspian Tern - 61
Mourning Dove - 88
Chimney Swift - 29
Downy Woodpecker - 4
Northern Flicker - 2
Eastern Wood-Peewee - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 13
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Warbling Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 3
Tree Swallow - 20
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 4
Brown Creeper - 1
Carolina Wren - 9
House Wren - 15
Marsh Wren - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 7
*GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH - 1
Hermit Thrush - 1
Wood Thrush - 1
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 19
Northern Mockingbird - 3
European Starling - 415
Cedar Waxwing - 5
Northern Parula - 2
Magnolia Warbler - 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 (Myrtle)
Black-throated Green Warbler - 2
Palm Warbler - 6 (Western)
Blackpoll Warbler - 3
Common Yellowthroat - 35
Eastern Towhee - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 32
Song Sparrow - 55
*LINCOLN'S SPARROW - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 15
White-throated Sparrow - 2
*WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW - 1
*LAPLAND LONGSPUR - 1
Northern Cardinal - 7
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Indigo Bunting - 2
Bobolink - 10
Red-winged Blackbird - 118
Brown-headed Cowbird - 29
House Finch - 5
American Goldfinch - 21

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

REPTILES
Northern Water Snake - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Checkered White - 1
Cabbage White - 23
Clouded Sulphur - 6
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 19 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 307
Cloudless Sulphur - 12
Gray Hairstreak - 13
Eastern Tailed Blue - 6
Variegated Fritillary - 49
Pearl Crescent - 197
American Lady - 2
Painted Lady - 12
Buckeye - 57
Viceroy - 1
Monarch - 213
Least Skipper - 3
Fiery Skipper - 11
Sachem - 4
Ocola Skipper - 4

MOTHS
*HAWAIIAN BEET WEBWORM - 1 [new for island]
Chickweed Geometer - 4
*SPOTTED DATANA - many (caterpillar) [new for island]
Isabella Tiger - 15 (Woolly Bear)
Salt Marsh - 7 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Virginian Tiger - 5 (Yellow Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape - 22
Smeared Dagger - 4 (Smartweed Caterpillar)
*ZEBRA CATERPILLAR - 1 (Zebra Caterpillar) [new for island]

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 3
Eastern Pondhawk - 22
Blue Dasher - 4
Spot-winged Glider - 5
Black Saddlebags - 10

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 28
Rambur's Forktail - 33


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland