Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 15, 2006
0715 - 1655
Weather: AM: hazy, 79 degrees, S 3 K; PM: mostly sunny, 85 degrees, S 10 K
Observers:  Mike Bowen, Kevin Graff, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 94
Mute Swan - 2
Wood Duck - 6
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 128
Ruddy Duck - 6
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 175 [NEW MD HIGH]
Double-crested Cormorant - 44
*LEAST BITTERN - 4
Great Blue Heron - 43
Great Egret - 8
*TRI-COLORED HERON - 1
Osprey - 10 (including 3 nestlings)
*COMMON MOORHEN - 5 (Confirmed: FL - recently fledged young)
    (1 adult with 2 juv; 1 adult with 1 downy young)
    (add on 07/08/06: FL - 1 downy young)
*AMERICAN COOT - 3
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 2
*KILLDEER - 17
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 13
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 11
*WILLET - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 9
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 23
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 1
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 90
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 14
Laughing Gull - 74
Ring-billed Gull - 1410
Herring Gull - 11
Great Black-backed Gull - 562
Caspian Tern - 106
Forster's Tern - 24
Least Tern - 22
*BLACK TERN - 2
Mourning Dove - 10
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 3
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 22
Barn Swallow - 65
Carolina Wren - 4
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 4
Gray Catbird - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 99
Common Yellowthroat - 13
Song Sparrow - 44 (Confirmed: FL - fledged Brown-headed Cowbird )
Swamp Sparrow - 15
Blue Grosbeak - 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 85
Brown-headed Cowbird - 17 (Confirmed: FL - fed by Song Sparrow)
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 7

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 5
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 1
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 19
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 2

MOTHS
Salt Marsh - 2 (Salt Marsh Caterpillars)
Milkweed Tussock - 17 (caterpillars)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 3
Halloween Pennant - 7
Eastern Pondhawk - 3
Needham's Skimmer - 31
Blue Dasher - 13
Black Saddlebags - 14

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland