Observations at Hart-Miller Island
March 11, 2006
0705 - 1700
Weather: AM: sunny, 50 degrees, 0 K; PM: sunny, 67 degrees, NE 6K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 273 (including 174 flyover)
Mute Swan - 72
Tundra Swan - 315 (including 225 flyover)
Wood Duck - 6
Gadwall - 131
American Wigeon - 66
American Black Duck - 53
American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid - 2
Mallard - 100
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (male)
Northern Shoveler - 21
Northern Pintail - 17
Green-winged Teal - 100
Redhead - 14 (8 male, 6 female)
Ring-necked Duck - 13 (8 male, 5 female)
Greater Scaup - 258
Lesser Scaup - 160
scaup sp. - 162
Bufflehead - 72
Common Goldeneye - 14 (9 male, 5 female)
Common Merganser - 1 (female)
Ruddy Duck - 81
Pied-billed Grebe - 34
*HORNED GREBE - 9
Double-crested Cormorant - 5
Great Blue Heron - 8
Turkey Vulture - 1
Osprey - 2 (arrival)
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult on nest)
Northern Harrier - 4 (1 male, 2 immature, 1 unknown)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (adult)
American Kestrel - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult at nest site; Craighill Channel Range Light)
American Coot - 1020
*KILLDEER - 11 (arrival)
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 4 (arrival)
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 3 (arrival)
*WILSON'S SNIPE - 4 (arrival)
Bonaparte's Gull - 27
Ring-billed Gull - 17
Herring Gull - 37
Great Black-backed Gull - 10
Mourning Dove - 14
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 3 (Yellow-shafted)
American Crow - 1
Horned Lark - 1
Tree Swallow - 27 (arrival)
Carolina Wren - 4
Marsh Wren - 3
American Robin - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 4
Eastern Towhee - 4
Savannah Sparrow - 10
Song Sparrow - 98
Northern Cardinal - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 125
Common Grackle - 41 (16 Purple; 1 BRONZED [new for island]; 24 unknown)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 (2 male, 1 female)
House Finch - 7
American Goldfinch - 4

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox - 2

AMPHIBIANS
Spring Peeper - 2
Southern Leopard Frog - 23


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland