Observations at Hart-Miller Island
March 4, 2006
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: sunny, 32 degrees, WNW 10K; PM: sunny, 45 degrees, WNW 25K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Ben Weinstein

*SPECIES OF NOTE

*MUTE SWAN - 75 (population keeps growing)
Gadwall - 242
American Wigeon - 50
American Black Duck - 11
Mallard - 11
Northern Pintail - 11
Green-winged Teal - 2
*REDHEAD - 5 (3 male, 2 female)
Ring-necked Duck - 8 (6 male, 2 female)
Greater Scaup - 3 (1 male, 2 female)
Lesser Scaup - 3
scaup sp. - 230
Bufflehead - 66
Common Goldeneye - 1
Ruddy Duck - 73
Bald Eagle - 4 (2 adult on nest; 2 independent immature)
Northern Harrier - 2 (1 male, 1 immature)
American Kestrel - 1 (female)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult on Craighill Channel Range Light)
American Coot - 354
Ring-billed Gull - 6
Herring Gull - 32
Great Black-backed Gull - 16
Mourning Dove - 29
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 2 (Yellow-shafted)
American Crow - 1
crow sp. - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
European Starling - 14
Eastern Towhee - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 12
Song Sparrow - 19
sparrow sp. - 35
*SNOW BUNTING - 11
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 79
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 4

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland