Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 14, 2006
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: sunny 45 degrees, W 5 K; PM: sunny, 57 degrees, WSW 10 K
Observer: Kevin Graff, Gene Scarpulla, Ben Weinstein

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 369
Mute Swan - 25
Wood Duck - 26
Gadwall - 8
American Wigeon - 119
American Black Duck - 32
Mallard - 134
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (female)
Northern Shoveler - 246
Northern Pintail - 201
Green-winged Teal - 187
Redhead - 2
Lesser Scaup - 7 (3 male, 4 female)
Ruddy Duck - 67
unidentified duck sp. - 3000 (a Bald Eagle flushed the ducks out of the 
North Cell phragmites and then they disappeared back into the phrag again)
Pied-billed Grebe - 32
Double-crested Cormorant - 80
Great Blue Heron - 26
Great Egret - 10
Snowy Egret - 1
Glossy Ibis - 1
Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adult, 1 immature)
Northern Harrier - 1 (immature)
unidentified accipiter sp. - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adult)
*SORA - 2
American Coot - 335
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 4
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 5
*KILLDEER - 1
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 5
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 32
*SANDERLING - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 3
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 36
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 34
*DUNLIN - 34
*STILT SANDPIPER - 23
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 12 (9 juvenile, 3 winter)
Laughing Gull - 5
Ring-billed Gull - 12
Herring Gull - 37
Great Black-backed Gull - 58
Caspian Tern - 11
Forster's Tern - 58
*ROYAL TERN - 2
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 10
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 9 (Yellow-shafted)
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Tree Swallow - 387
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 7
Marsh Wren - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 2
European Starling - 70
*AMERICAN PIPIT - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 65 (Myrtle)
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
Eastern Towhee - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 6
Song Sparrow - 45
Swamp Sparrow - 3
White-crowned Sparrow - 1 (immature)
Red-winged Blackbird - 84
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 2

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

REPTILES
Eastern Garter Snake - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Green Frog - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 4
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 33
Variegated Fritillary - 3
Eastern Comma - 1 (orange fall morph)
unidentified anglewing sp. - 2
Common Buckeye - 49
*MONARCH - 1485
unidentified skipper sp. - 1

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger - 1 (Woolly Bear)
Virginian Tiger - 2 (Yellow Bears)
Yellow-collared Scape - 3
Smeared Dagger - 1 (Smartweed Caterpillar)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Black Saddlebags - 1

DAMSELFLIES
Rambur's Forktail - 500


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland