Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 12, 2006
0720 - 1650
Weather: AM: sunny, 67 degrees, N 5 K; PM: sunny, 91 degrees, N 1 K
Observers:  Kevin Graff, Brad Lanning; Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson; Ben 
Weinstein

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 164
Mute Swan - 17
Wood Duck - 14
American Black Duck - 3
Mallard - 198
Green-winged Teal - 12
Ruddy Duck - 4 (3 male, 1 female)
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 133
Double-crested Cormorant - 90
Great Blue Heron - 12
Great Egret - 13
Snowy Egret - 15
*TRI-COLORED HERON - 1
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 (juvenile)
Osprey - 10
Bald Eagle - 3 (1 adult, 2 immature)
Northern Harrier - 2 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 2
*COMMON MOORHEN - 2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile)
*AMERICAN COOT - 4 (1 adult, 3 juvenile)
unidentified rail sp. - 2
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 10
*KILLDEER - 13
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 12
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 59
*SANDERLING - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 133
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 5
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 77
unidentified peep sp. - 75
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 2
*STILT SANDPIPER - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 25
Laughing Gull - 33
Ring-billed Gull - 698
Herring Gull - 2
Great Black-backed Gull - 861
Least Tern - 4
Caspian Tern - 654
Forster's Tern - 4
Mourning Dove - 45
Chimney Swift - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
unidentified hummingbird sp. - 5
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 9
Purple Martin - 5
Tree Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 4
Barn Swallow - 90
Carolina Wren - 3
Marsh Wren - 1
American Robin - 4
Gray Catbird - 4
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 100
Cedar Waxwing - 4
Yellow Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 7
Song Sparrow - 17
Swamp Sparrow - 4
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 7
Red-winged Blackbird - 175
Brown-headed Cowbird - 11
Orchard Oriole - 5
House Finch - 13
American Goldfinch - 12

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 10
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3 (yellow)
Spicebush Swallowtail - 5
Cabbage White - 9
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 14
Cloudless Sulphur - 4
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Pearl Crescent - 4
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Viceroy - 2
Monarch - 16
Silver-spotted Skipper - 3

MOTHS
Spotted Datana - 613 (caterpillars)
unidentified Datana sp. - 1 (caterpillar)
Fall Webworm - 606 (caterpillars)
Yellow-collared Scape - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 33
Halloween Pennant - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 31
Needham's Skimmer - 25
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 1
Blue Dasher - 250
Eastern Amberwing - 2
Black Saddlebags - 10

DAMSELFLIES
Rambur's Forktail - 24


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland