Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 29, 2006
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: sunny, 75 degrees, SSE 2 K; PM: sunny, 94 degrees, SE 5 K
Observers:  Danny Bystrak, Kevin Graff, Joel Martin, Gene Scarpulla, Jeff 
Shenot, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 220
Mute Swan - 3
Wood Duck - 46
Gadwall - 8
American Black Duck - 7
Mallard - 104 (including 10 downy young)
Ruddy Duck - 8 (6 male, 2 female)
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 109
Double-crested Cormorant - 44
*LEAST BITTERN - 7
Great Blue Heron - 22
Great Egret - 6
Snowy Egret - 3
*TRI-COLORED HERON - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 (juvenile)
Osprey - 16
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
*SORA - 1
*COMMON MOORHEN - 14
    (2 ad + 3 juv; 1 ad + 1 juv; 2 ad + 1 juv; 0 ad + 2 juv ; 1 ad; 1 ad)
*AMERICAN COOT - 5
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 3
*KILLDEER - 17
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 11
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 40
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 8
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 13
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 51
unidentified peep sp. - 80
*STILT SANDPIPER - 4
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 39
Laughing Gull - 36
Ring-billed Gull - 1033
Herring Gull - 41
Great Black-backed Gull - 501
Least Tern - 13
Caspian Tern - 295
Forster's Tern - 16
*ROYAL TERN - 2
Mourning Dove - 39
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
*BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO - 1
unidentified cuckoo sp. - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
unidentified hummingbird sp. - 2
Traill's Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 9
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Purple Martin - 6
Tree Swallow - 4
Barn Swallow - 124
Carolina Wren - 6
House Wren - 5
Marsh Wren - 6
American Robin - 2
Gray Catbird - 17 (FY - feeding young)
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 165
Yellow Warbler - 12
Common Yellowthroat - 28 (FL - fledged young)
Song Sparrow - 32 (FY - feeding young)
Swamp Sparrow - 14
Northern Cardinal - 7
Blue Grosbeak - 8 (FY - feeding young)
Indigo Bunting - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 156
Common Grackle - 3
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
Orchard Oriole - 8 (FY - male feeding young)
House Finch - 19 (FY - feeding young)
American Goldfinch - 22

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 11
*GREEN FROG - 1 (new for island)

BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail - 2
Black Swallowtail - 27
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 15 (4 black female; 11 yellow)
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
unidentified dark swallowtail sp. - 2
Cabbage White - 60
Orange Sulphur - 26
Cloudless Sulphur - 11
*RED-BANDED HAIRSTREAK - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 9
Eastern Tailed Blue - 28
Summer Azure - 3
American Snout - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 3
Pearl Crescent - 23
Common Buckeye - 14
Viceroy - 1
Monarch - 69
Silver-spotted Skipper - 22
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 11
Least Skipper - 2
Broad-winged Skipper - 2

MOTHS
Salt Marsh - 2 (Salt Marsh Caterpillars)
Eight-spotted Forester - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 30
Halloween Pennant - 12
Eastern Pondhawk - 95
Needham's Skimmer - 140
Great Blue Skimmer - 1
Blue Dasher - 47
Carolina Saddlebags - 1
Black Saddlebags - 26

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 4
Rambur's Forktail - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland