Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 6, 2006
0710 - 1650
Weather: AM: sunny, 65 degrees, W 10 K; PM: sunny, 78 degrees, W 15K
Observers: Karen Caruso, Carol Frost, Kevin Graff, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia 
Watson

[Peregrines are an annoyance.]

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 37 (including 3 downy young)
Mute Swan - 18
Wood Duck - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Gadwall - 38
American Wigeon - 9
American Black Duck - 5
American Black Duck/Mallard hybrid - 1
Mallard - 27
Blue-winged Teal - 3 (2 male, 1 female)
Green-winged Teal - 4 (male)
Ring-necked Duck - 1 (male)
Greater Scaup - 1 (male)
Ruddy Duck - 17 (15 male, 2 female)
Pied-billed Grebe - 39
Double-crested Cormorant - 24
*GREAT BLUE HERON - 32 (2 birds flew in together onto "old" Hart , 1 
CARRYING STICKS, & landed out-of-sight into shrubby marsh area)
Great Egret - 4
Snowy Egret - 3
Turkey Vulture - 6
Osprey - 17
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 3 (female)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult) [Peregrines are an annoyance.]
*AMERICAN COOT - 60 (1 ON NEST in South Cell)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 60
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 2
*KILLDEER - 13 (nest with 4 eggs in North Cell)
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 10
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 14
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 3
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 7
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 78
*DUNLIN - 16
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1 (hendersoni)
*In the North Cell, there was a mixed flock of ~300 shorebirds containing at 
least Black-bellied Plovers, Semipalmated Plovers, Greater Yellowlegs, 
Lesser Yellowlegs, and Least Sandpipers.  At the beginning of the census, 
the flock came under attack by an adult Peregrine Falcon.  The shorebirds 
scattered, never to be seen again.  [Peregrines are an annoyance.]
Laughing Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 25
Herring Gull - 55
Great Black-backed Gull - 37
Caspian Tern - 315
*ROYAL TERN - 2
Common Tern - 1 (second-summer)
Forster's Tern - 2
Mourning Dove - 6
Chimney Swift - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 7
Warbling Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Blue Jay - 1
Fish Crow - 5
Tree Swallow - 56
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 5
Barn Swallow - 19
Carolina Wren - 5
House Wren - 8
Marsh Wren - 9
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4
American Robin - 5
Gray Catbird - 6
Brown Thrasher - 2
European Starling - 3
Northern Parula - 1
Yellow Warbler - 26
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10 (Myrtle)
Palm Warbler 1 (Western)
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 27
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 28
Swamp Sparrow - 19
White-throated Sparrow - 6
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Red-winged Blackbird - 140
Common Grackle - 24 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 12
Orchard Oriole - 6
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 25

[Did I mention that Peregrines are an annoyance?]

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 6 (2 adult, 4 pups)

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 4
Spicebush Swallowtail - 3
dark swallowtail sp. - 5
Cabbage White - 6
Orange Sulphur - 10
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 7
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 66
Monarch - 1
Silver-spotted Skipper - 3
Juvenal's Duskywing - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 5
dragonfly sp. - 2

DAMSELFLIES
bluet sp. - 40


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland