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Hart-Miller Island: May 11. 2006

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Eugene J. Scarpulla

Date:

Mon, 15 May 2006 23:17:06 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 11, 2006
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: cloudy, 62 degrees, NE 5 K; PM: mostly sunny, 70 degrees, SSE 
3K
Observers: Brad Lanning, Gene Scarpulla, Joe Turner
MAY COUNT: 10 hours, 6 miles

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 38 (including 21 downy young)
Mute Swan - 26
Wood Duck - 4 (3 male, 1 female)
Gadwall - 6
American Wigeon - 1 (male)
American Black Duck - 11
Mallard - 32
Green-winged Teal - 1 (male)
Greater Scaup - 2 (male)
Ruddy Duck - 11
Pied-billed Grebe - 8
Double-crested Cormorant - 13
Great Blue Heron - 22 (no evidence of nest found)
Great Egret - 6
Snowy Egret - 5
Osprey - 9
Bald Eagle - 1 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*SORA - 1
American Coot - 7
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 76
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 15
*KILLDEER - 10 (nest with 4 eggs in North Cell)
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 6
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 7
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 298
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 71
*DUNLIN - 74
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 2
Laughing Gull - 2
Bonaparte's Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 15
Herring Gull - 9
Great Black-backed Gull - 25
Caspian Tern - 144
Least Tern - 4
Mourning Dove - 14
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1 (Yellow-shafted)
Willow Flycatcher - 4
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 8
Blue Jay - 4
crow  sp. - 2
Tree Swallow - 32
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 28
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 3
Marsh Wren - 8
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 9
Northern Mockingbird - 3
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 2
Yellow Warbler - 17
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (Myrtle)
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 25
Eastern Towhee - 3
Field Sparrow - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 36
Swamp Sparrow - 15
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 125
Common Grackle - 11 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 9
Orchard Oriole - 9 (4 1st-sum M, 2 M, 3 F; 1 U)
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 15

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1 (pup)
Raccoon - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 1
Southern Leopard Frog - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 6
Clouded Sulphur - 5
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 47
Silver-spotted Skipper - 6

TIGER BEETLES
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 25


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland