Observations at Hart-Miller Island
June 3, 2006
0710 - 1705
Weather: AM: cloudy, 74 degrees, SW 5 K; PM: cloudy, 68 degrees, W 20 K
Observers: Bob Ringler, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 137
Mute Swan - 39
Wood Duck - 24 (including 4 young) [Confirmed breeding - FL]
Gadwall - 2 (male)
American Black Duck -  19
American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid - 1
Mallard - 190 (including 10 young)
Mallard x unknown hybrid - 1
Blue-winged Teal - 2 (male)
Green-winged Teal - 3
scaup sp. - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Ruddy Duck - 6 (4 male, 2 female)
Pied-billed Grebe - 23 (including 1 young)
Double-crested Cormorant - 23
*LEAST BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 18
Great Egret - 13
Snowy Egret - 8
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 (adult)
*GLOSSY IBIS - 6
Osprey - 15 (including 2 nestlings)
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*SORA - 2 (singing)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 4
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 11
*KILLDEER - 13
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 3
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*WILLET - 2 (Eastern)
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 10
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 165
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 3
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 4
*DUNLIN - 9
Laughing Gull - 38
Ring-billed Gull - 25
Herring Gull - 81
Great Black-backed Gull - 628
Caspian Tern - 134
Least Tern - 2
Mourning Dove - 18
Willow Flycatcher - 7
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 7
Tree Swallow - 23
Bank Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 37
Carolina Wren - 3
House Wren - 4
Marsh Wren - 3
American Robin - 8
Gray Catbird - 6
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 23
Cedar Waxwing - 3
Yellow Warbler - 11
Common Yellowthroat - 13
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 41
Swamp Sparrow - 14 [Confirmed breeding - FY]
Northern Cardinal - 6
Blue Grosbeak - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 115
Common Grackle - 14 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
Orchard Oriole - 6
House Finch - 11
American Goldfinch - 20

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 2

BUTTERFLIES
dark swallowtail sp. - 2
Cabbage White - 16
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 2 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 45
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Summer Azure - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Mourning Cloak - 2
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Silver-spotted Skipper - 2

MOTHS
Virginia Ctenucha - 6
Baltimore Bomolocha - 4

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1 (male)
Calico Pennant - 1 (female)
Eastern Pondhawk - 7 (1 immature male, 6 female)
Needham's Skimmer - 6 (2 males, 4 females)
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 1 (female)
Blue Dasher - 15 (many females)
Black Saddlebags - 2 (1 male, 1 female)

DAMSELFLIES
Rambur's Forktail - 20 (including several orange immature females)


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland