Observations at Hart-Miller Island
December 24, 2005
0715 - 1355
Weather: AM: sunny, 32 degrees, 0 K; PM: mostly sunny, 42 degrees, SE 3K
Observers: Laura Anderson, Elaine Arnold, Stan Arnold, Kevin Graff, John 
Hubbell, Scott Michaud, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 106
Mute Swan - 49
Gadwall - 310
American Wigeon - 68
American Black Duck - 15
Black Duck x Mallard hybrid - 1
Mallard - 13
Northern Pintail - 1 (male)
Canvasback - 1 (male)
*REDHEAD - 11 (8 male, 3 female)
Ring-necked Duck - 1
Greater Scaup - 47
Lesser Scaup - 16
scaup sp. - 68
Long-tailed Duck - 5
Bufflehead - 31
*HOODED MERGANSER - 1 (female)
Common Merganser - 16
Ruddy Duck - 43
Pied-billed Grebe - 5
Great Blue Heron - 2
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 4 (immature)
Cooper's Hawk - 2
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1
American Coot - 747
Ring-billed Gull - 34
Bonaparte's Gull - 12
Herring Gull - 7
Great Black-backed Gull - 13
Mourning Dove - 39
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 3 (Yellow-shafted)
Carolina Wren - 1
**SEDGE WREN - 1 (NEW FOR THE ISLAND - BIRD SPECIES # 285)
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
*AMERICAN TREE SPARROW - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 18
Song Sparrow - 183
Swamp Sparrow - 37
White-throated Sparrow - 4
*SNOW BUNTING - 3
Northern Cardinal - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 92
American Goldfinch - 14

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 3


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland