Observations at Hart-Miller Island
November 19, 2005
0710 - 1550
Weather: AM: sunny, 38 degrees, WSW 5 K; PM: sunny, 48 degrees, S 5K
Observers: Ed Boyd, Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 493
Mute Swan - 50
Tundra Swan - 6
Gadwall - 137
American Wigeon - 110
American Black Duck - 28
Mallard - 206
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (male)
Northern Shoveler - 72
Northern Pintail - 69
Green-winged Teal - 62
*REDHEAD - 4 (1 adult male, 1 imm. male, 2 female)
*RING-NECKED DUCK - 11
Greater Scaup - 6
Lesser Scaup - 5
scaup sp. - 1
*SURF SCOTER - 11 (4 Baltimore Co.; 7 Kent Co.)
Bufflehead - 73
Ruddy Duck - 174
*COMMON LOON - 29
Pied-billed Grebe - 27
Double-crested Cormorant - 15
Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adult, 1 immature)
Northern Harrier - 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (adult)
American Kestrel - 1
American Coot - 247
Killdeer - 2
Laughing Gull - 2
Bonaparte's Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 21
Herring Gull - 8
Great Black-backed Gull - 8
Mourning Dove - 23
*SHORT-EARED OWL - 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 3 (Yellow-shafted)
Carolina Chickadee - 7
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 6
*HERMIT THRUSH - 2
American Robin - 6
Gray Catbird - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 141
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 (Myrtle)
Common Yellowthroat - 4
Eastern Towhee - 4
Field Sparrow - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 41
*FOX SPARROW - 1
Song Sparrow - 274
*LINCOLN'S SPARROW - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 84
White-throated Sparrow - 56
Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (Slate-colored)
*SNOW BUNTING - 21
Northern Cardinal - 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 155
Brown-headed Cowbird - 21
American Goldfinch - 31

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Orange Sulphur - 4
Variegated Fritillary - 2

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger - 1 (Woolly Bear)


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland