Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 26, 2006
0715 - 1700
Weather: AM: cloudy 75 degrees, NE 10 K; PM: sunny, 88 degrees, NNE 5 K
Observer:  Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 79
Mute Swan - 11
Wood Duck - 58
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 176
Northern Shoveler - 3
Green-winged Teal - 12
Ruddy Duck - 3
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 98
Double-crested Cormorant - 150
Great Blue Heron - 13
Great Egret - 19
Snowy Egret - 4
Osprey - 18
Northern Harrier - 1 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 1
*COMMON MOORHEN - 1 (adult)
*AMERICAN COOT - 4
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 4
*KILLDEER - 12
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 2
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 7
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 64
*SANDERLING - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 74
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 121
unidentified peep sp. - 72
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1 (juvenile)
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 2
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 66
Laughing Gull - 27
Ring-billed Gull - 273
Herring Gull - 71
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (third-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 1151
Caspian Tern - 316
Forster's Tern - 3
Mourning Dove - 36
Eastern Kingbird - 5
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 21
Bank Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 43
Carolina Wren - 5
Gray Catbird - 3
European Starling - 290
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Song Sparrow - 6
*BOBOLINK - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 165
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 19

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 6
unidentified dark swallowtail sp. - 1
Cabbage White - 2
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 5 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 48
Cloudless Sulphur - 2
Gray Hairstreak - 8
Pearl Crescent - 1
Common Buckeye - 4
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Monarch - 17

MOTHS
Olive-shaded Bird-Dropping - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 2
Eastern Pondhawk - 4
Needham's Skimmer - 5
Spot-winged Glider - 200
Black Saddlebags - 3

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 5
Rambur's Forktail - 2

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Carolina Grasshopper - 2
Large Milkweed Bug - 30
Small Milkweed Bug - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland