Observations at Hart-Miller Island
December 17, 2005
0710 - 1600
Weather: AM: cloudy, 34 degrees, 0 K; PM: cloudy, 43 degrees, S 5K
Observers: Ralph Cullison, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson-Whitmyre

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 297
Mute Swan - 55
Tundra Swan - 17
Gadwall - 205
American Wigeon - 119
American Black Duck - 12
Mallard - 66
Northern Pintail - 6
Ring-necked Duck - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Greater Scaup - 44
Lesser Scaup - 78
scaup sp. - 400
*LONG-TAILED DUCK - 13
Bufflehead - 144
Common Goldeneye - 4 (1 male, 3 female)
Common Merganser - 114
Ruddy Duck - 33
Pied-billed Grebe - 7
Double-crested Cormorant - 2
Great Blue Heron - 3
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 3 (1 immature, 2 female)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (adult)
American Kestrel - 1 (male)
*VIRGINIA RAIL - 2
*AMERICAN COOT - 746
Ring-billed Gull - 84
Herring Gull - 8
Great Black-backed Gull - 28
Mourning Dove - 138
*SNOWY OWL - 1 (immature)
Belted Kingfisher - 1 (male)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 12 (Yellow-shafted)
Blue Jay - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 5
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 12
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
*HERMIT THRUSH - 1
Gray Catbird - 1
European Starling - 8
Eastern Towhee - 2
*AMERICAN TREE SPARROW - 1
Field Sparrow - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 27
*FOX SPARROW - 2
Song Sparrow - 159
Swamp Sparrow - 29
White-throated Sparrow - 40
Dark-eyed Junco - 4 (Slate-colored)
*SNOW BUNTING - 17
Northern Cardinal - 8
Red-winged Blackbird - 46
Common Grackle - 7 (Purple)
*PINE SISKIN - 1
American Goldfinch - 52

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 3


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland