Observations at Hart-Miller Island
April 14, 2007
0705 - 1655
Weather: AM: mostly sunny, 45 degrees, wind W 2K; PM: mostly sunny, 57 
degrees, E 5K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 18
Mute Swan - 60
Gadwall - 13
American Wigeon - 4
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 16
Blue-winged Teal - 8 (4 males, 4 females)
Northern Shoveler - 15
Green-winged Teal - 22
Ring-necked Duck - 10
Greater Scaup - 19
Lesser Scaup - 61
unidentified scaup sp. - 17
Bufflehead - 18
Ruddy Duck - 210
Pied-billed Grebe - 26
Double-crested Cormorant - 938
Great Blue Heron - 10
Osprey - 16
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 1 (female)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
American Coot - 614
Killdeer - 5
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 1
Bonaparte's Gull - 216
Ring-billed Gull - 163
Herring Gull - 122
Great Black-backed Gull - 10
Caspian Tern - 100
Mourning Dove - 6
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Fish Crow - 8
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 131
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
American Robin - 1
European Starling - 1
Eastern Towhee - 2
Field Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 42
Swamp Sparrow - 5
Northern Cardinal - 4
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 92
Common Grackle - 4 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 1

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 2
Red Fox - 1

REPTILES
Painted Turtle - 5

AMPHIBIANS
Spring Peeper - 7

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 14
Orange Sulphur - 4

MISCELLANEOUS
unidentified tiger beetle sp. - 28 (probably Bronzed [C. r. repanda], but 
need to separate from Hairy-necked [C. h. hirticollis]and confirm next week)


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland