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Hart-Miller Island: October 15, 2005

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Eugene J. Scarpulla

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Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:36:33 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 15, 2005
0715 - 1645
Weather: AM: sunny, 60 degrees,  NW 10K; PM: mostly sunny, 75 degrees, NNW 
20K
[Audubon Naturalist Society field trip]
Observers: Karen Caruso, Brendan DeTemple, Carol Frost, Brad Lanning, Ellen 
McClure, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 129
Mute Swan - 20 (8 adult, 12 young)
Gadwall - 10
American Wigeon - 13
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 111
Northern Shoveler - 88
Northern Pintail - 2
Green-winged Teal - 40
Lesser Scaup - 1 (female)
Ruddy Duck - 12
Pied-billed Grebe - 32
Double-crested Cormorant - 16
Great Blue Heron - 10
*MISSISSIPPI KITE - 1 (juvenile) [HMI Bird Species # 284]
(If the Yellow Book has not been superceded, this is new for Baltimore 
County and a new late date for Maryland.)
Northern Harrier - 2 (immature)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
Cooper's Hawk - 1
accipiter sp. - 1
American Kestrel - 3
Merlin - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
falcon sp. - 1
American Coot - 47
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 7
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 5
Killdeer - 2
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*SANDERLING - 2
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 20
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 14
Laughing Gull - 4
Ring-billed Gull - 13
Herring Gull - 122
Great Black-backed Gull - 86
Caspian Tern - 48
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 22
Chimney Swift - 8
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 7
Tree Swallow - 60
Barn Swallow - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Brown Creeper - 2
Carolina Wren - 4
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 17
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 3
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 295
American Pipit - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 23 (Myrtle)
Palm Warbler - 4 (1 Yellow, 3 Western)
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 3
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Field Sparrow - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 12
Song Sparrow - 33
Swamp Sparrow - 12
White-crowned Sparrow - 1
Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (Slate-colored)
Northern Cardinal - 6
Bobolink - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 210
Eastern Meadowlark - 1
Brown-headed Cowbird - 30
House Finch - 15
American Goldfinch - 19

REPTILES
Eastern Garter Snake - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 6
Clouded Sulphur - 5
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 6 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 60
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 9
Pearl Crescent - 12
Mourning Cloak - 3
American Lady - 1
Painted Lady - 1
lady sp. - 3
Red Admiral - 3
Buckeye - 16
Monarch - 108
skipper sp. - 2

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger - 3 (Woolly Bear)
Salt Marsh - 3 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Virginian Tiger - 1 (Yellow Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape - 180
Smeared Dagger - 8 (Smartweed Caterpillar)
Zebra Caterpillar - 1 (Zebra Caterpillar)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 3
Carolina Saddlebags - 2

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet -10

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland