Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 1, 2006
0705 - 1650
Weather: AM: sunny, 75 degrees, SE 5 K; PM: sunny, 85 degrees, SW 15 K
Observers: Kevin Graff, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 92
*TUNDRA SWAN - 1
Mute Swan - 4
Wood Duck - 3
Gadwall - 3 (2 male, 1 female)
American Black Duck - 1
Mallard - 121 (including 9 young)
Ruddy Duck - 5 (3 male, 2 female)
Pied-billed Grebe - 78
Double-crested Cormorant - 57
*LEAST BITTERN - 4
Great Blue Heron - 45 (including 2 juvenals same location as 6/17/06)
Great Egret - 2
Snowy Egret - 2
*LITTLE BLUE HERON - 1
Cattle Egret - 1
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
*GLOSSY IBIS - 2
Osprey - 18 (including 4 nestlings)
*PEREGRINE FALCON - 4 (2 adults, 2 juvenals at nest site - FL)
*COMMON MOORHEN - 4 (T - territory)
American Coot - 1
*KILLDEER - 7
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 6
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 4
Laughing Gull - 45
Ring-billed Gull - 434
Herring Gull - 58
Great Black-backed Gull - 411
Caspian Tern - 110
**ROSEATE TERN - 2 (1 flyby, 1 flyover)
Forster's Tern - 2
Least Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 9
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 9
Purple Martin - 3
Tree Swallow - 15
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4
Barn Swallow - 52
Carolina Wren - 1
House Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 6
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 3
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 26
Yellow Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 18
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 39
Swamp Sparrow - 17
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 4
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 165
Common Grackle - 1 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 4
Orchard Oriole - 5
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 11

REPTILES
Painted Turtle - 2
Eastern Garter Snake - 1 (dead)

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 4
Bullfrog - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 5
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 10
Orange Sulphur - 20
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 6
Viceroy - 1
Common Wood Nymph - 2 (southern/coastal form)
Monarch - 8

MOTHS
Salt Marsh - 4 (Salt Marsh Caterpillars)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 4
Halloween Pennant - 5
Eastern Pondhawk - 16
Needham's Skimmer - 78
Blue Dasher - 4
Carolina Saddlebags - 1
Black Saddlebags - 30

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 5
Rambur's Forktail - 1

TRUE BUGS
Large Milkweed Bug - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland