Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 8, 2006
0705 - 1700
Weather: AM: cloudy, 74 degrees, NNE 3 K; PM: mostly cloudy, 82 degrees, N 1 
K
Observers: Kevin Graff, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 138
Mute Swan - 2
Wood Duck - 33 (23 adult, 10 young)
Gadwall - 3 (2 male, 1 female)
American Black Duck - 1
Mallard - 177 (including 4 young)
Ruddy Duck - 7 (5 male, 2 female)
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 163 [NEW MD HIGH]
    (incl. 1 on nest in South Cell; including numerous young)
Double-crested Cormorant - 58
*LEAST BITTERN - 3
Great Blue Heron - 68
Great Egret - 8
Osprey - 16 (including 2 nestlings)
*PEREGRINE FALCON - (1 juvenal at nest site)
*SORA - 1
*COMMON MOORHEN - 3
*AMERICAN COOT - 3
*KILLDEER - 26 (including 6 downy young)
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 8
*WILLET - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 17
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 3
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 81
peep sp. - 10
*DUNLIN - 1
Laughing Gull - 85
Ring-billed Gull - 710
Herring Gull - 22
Great Black-backed Gull - 608
Caspian Tern - 98
Common Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 2
Least Tern - 3
Mourning Dove - 13
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 3
Great Crested Flycatcher - 3
Eastern Kingbird -11
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Purple Martin - 5
Tree Swallow - 16
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Cliff Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 49
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 3
House Wren - 4 (Confirmed: ON - occupied nest)
Marsh Wren - 11
Eastern Bluebird - 1
American Robin - 6
Gray Catbird - 6
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 33
Yellow Warbler - 5 (Confirmed: FL - fledged Brown-headed Cowbird )
American Redstart - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 31
Yellow-breasted Chat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 34
Swamp Sparrow - 13
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 4
*BOBOLINK - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 215
Brown-headed Cowbird - (Confirmed: FL - fed by Yellow Warbler)
Orchard Oriole - 5
House Finch - 10
American Goldfinch - 10

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Bullfrog - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 13
Spicebush Swallowtail - 6
dark swallowtail sp. - 3
Cabbage White - 18
Orange Sulphur - 24
Cloudless Sulphur - 2
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Pearl Crescent - 3
American Lady - 1
Red Admiral - 1
Common Buckeye - 4
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Monarch - 11 (including 1 caterpillar)
duskywing sp. - 1

MOTHS
Salt Marsh - 24 (Salt Marsh Caterpillars)
Milkweed Tussock - 12 (caterpillars)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Halloween Pennant - 8
Eastern Pondhawk - 23 (including 1 that captured a Needham's Skimmer)
Needham's Skimmer - 77 (including 1 captured by an Eastern Pondhawk)
Blue Dasher - 96
Black Saddlebags - 10

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 8


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland