Observations at Hart-Miller Island
April 29, 2006
0705 - 1655
Weather: AM: sunny, 55 degrees, ENE 10 K; PM: sunny, 63 degrees, NE 5K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 29 (including 7 downy young)
Mute Swan - 18
Tundra Swan - 1
Gadwall - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
American Black Duck - 13
Mallard - 24
Green-winged Teal - 44
Ring-necked Duck - 4 (2 male, 2 female)
Greater Scaup - 2 (male)
Red-breasted Merganser - 6 (female)
Ruddy Duck - 6
Pied-billed Grebe - 20
Double-crested Cormorant - 35
Great Blue Heron - 9
Great Egret - 1
Snowy Egret - 4
Osprey - 13
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
American Coot - 30
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 166
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 2
*KILLDEER - 9
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 1
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 49
*DUNLIN - 21
Ring-billed Gull - 38
Herring Gull - 22
Great Black-backed Gull - 35
Caspian Tern - 157
Mourning Dove - 17
Chimney Swift - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 3
Tree Swallow - 55
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3
Barn Swallow - 28
Carolina Wren - 3
House Wren - 3
American Robin - 6
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 13
Yellow Warbler - 3
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 29
Canada Warbler - 1
Eastern Towhee - 2
Field Sparrow - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 5
Song Sparrow - 31
Swamp Sparrow - 11
White-throated Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 123
Common Grackle - 9 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
Orchard Oriole - 5
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 16

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 1 (male)
Cabbage White - 2
Orange Sulphur - 11
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Eastern Tailed Blue - 2
Pearl Crescent - 13
duskywing sp. - 1

MOTHS
Baltimore Bomolocha - 1

DAMSELFLIES
Rambur's Forktail - 1

BEETLES
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland