Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 9, 2006
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: sunny 77 degrees, ESE 1 K; PM: sunny, 83 degrees, ESE 2 K

There were two separate survey groups (ornithology and entomology) on 
Hart-Miller Island on Saturday, September 9, 2006.

Bird Observers:  Greg Butcher, Pat Caro, Dennis Coskren, Chuck Finley, 
Barbara Gearhart, Jim Green, Gene Scarpulla (part-time), Robin Todd 
(part-time), Ana Urciolo, Marcia Watson, Mike Welch

[Special thanks go to Marcia Watson for leading the birding group and 
tallying the bird data while I was hosting my fellow members of the Maryland 
Entomological Society on a collecting field trip on Hart-Miller Island. 
Several new insect species were added to the Island list while in the field; 
more will be added after laboratory examination.  Preliminary findings have 
yielded at least one highly significant insect record for the State.]

Maryland Entomological Society Observers: John Carroll, Pat Durkin, Timothy 
Ford, Phil Kean, Richard Orr, Peter Osenton, Fred Paras, Matthew Roth, Rob 
Roth, Gene Scarpulla, Dick Smith, Robin Todd

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 126
Mute Swan - 6
Wood Duck - 14
American Wigeon - 16
American Black Duck - 11
Mallard - 346
Blue-winged Teal - 11
Northern Shoveler - 11
Northern Pintail - 2
Green-winged Teal - 21
Ruddy Duck - 2
unidentified duck sp. - 80
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 48
Double-crested Cormorant - 87
Great Blue Heron - 29
Great Egret - 11
Snowy Egret - 5
*TRICOLORED HERON - 1
Osprey - 7
Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adult, 1 immature)
Northern Harrier - 2 (immature)
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
unidentified rail sp. - 3
*AMERICAN COOT - 10
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 10
*KILLDEER - 8
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 2
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 4
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 8
*WILLET - 1
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 55
*WHIMBREL - 1
*SANDERLING - 10
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 108
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 5
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 19
unidentified peep sp. - 250
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 11
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 4
*DUNLIN - 3
*STILT SANDPIPER - 15
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 6
Laughing Gull - 12
Ring-billed Gull - 96
Herring Gull - 11
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 2 (adult)
Great Black-backed Gull - 139
Caspian Tern - 386
*BLACK TERN - 10
Forster's Tern - 2
*ROYAL TERN - 1
Rock Pigeon - 3
Mourning Dove - 93
*EASTERN SCREECH-OWL - 1
Chimney Swift - 46
unidentified hummingbird sp. - 4
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
"Traill's" Flycatcher - 4
*LEAST FLYCATCHER - 1
unidentified Empid flycatcher sp. - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
White-eyed Vireo - 2
Purple Martin - 3
Tree Swallow - 56
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3
Cliff Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 19
Carolina Wren - 9
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 5
Northern Mockingbird - 4
European Starling - 486
Cedar Waxwing - 2
Yellow Warbler - 2
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Prairie Warbler -1
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 16
Song Sparrow - 8
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 6
*BOBOLINK - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 251
Brown-headed Cowbird -57
Baltimore Oriole - 3
House Finch - 51
American Goldfinch - 39

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox - 3


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland