Observations at Hart-Miller Island
June 17, 2006
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: sunny, 72 degrees, SSW 5 K; PM: sunny, 84 degrees, SE 10 K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 463
Mute Swan - 19
Wood Duck - 33 (including 7 young)
Gadwall - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
American Black Duck -  5
Mallard - 278 (including 3 young)
Ruddy Duck - 5 (3 male, 2 female)
Pied-billed Grebe - 65 (including 22 young)
Double-crested Cormorant - 45
*LEAST BITTERN - 4
Great Blue Heron - 39 (including 2 immatures)
Great Egret - 12 (including 1 breaking twigs off of a dead tree)
Snowy Egret - 2
*TRI-COLORED HERON - 1
*GLOSSY IBIS - 2
Osprey - 13 (including 2 nestlings)
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adults at nest site)
*COMMON MOORHEN - 4
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 7
*KILLDEER - 7
*WILLET - 1 (Eastern)
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 7
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 1
*DUNLIN - 1
Laughing Gull - 245
Ring-billed Gull - 22
Herring Gull - 117
Great Black-backed Gull - 367
Caspian Tern - 86
Forster's Tern - 2
Least Tern - 3
Mourning Dove - 10
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Tree Swallow - 20
Barn Swallow - 15
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 3
Marsh Wren - 4
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 6
European Starling - 1
Yellow Warbler - 10
Common Yellowthroat - 9
Song Sparrow - 44
Swamp Sparrow - 19
Northern Cardinal - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 138
Orchard Oriole - 3
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 9

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail  - 1
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 6
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 2 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 30
Summer Azure - 4
Pearl Crescent - 4
Common Buckeye - 1
Monarch - 1

MOTHS
Olive-shaded Bird-Dropping - 6

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 2
Halloween Pennant - 2
Eastern Pondhawk - 7
Needham's Skimmer - 11
Blue Dasher - 4
Black Saddlebags - 24

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 3
Rambur's Forktail - 6

TRUE BUGS
Large Milkweed Bug - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland