Observations at Hart-Miller Island
April 28, 2007
0710 - 1700
Weather: AM: cloudy, 60 degrees, wind WNW 5K; PM: cloudy, 65 degrees, W 10K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 41 (including 8 downy young)
Mute Swan - 43
Wood Duck - 4
Gadwall - 8
American Black Duck - 1
Mallard - 38
domestic duck - 1 (white)
Northern Shoveler - 10
Green-winged Teal - 11
Greater Scaup - 14
Lesser Scaup - 2
Bufflehead - 4
Ruddy Duck - 12
Pied-billed Grebe - 14
Double-crested Cormorant - 46
Great Blue Heron - 5
Great Egret - 3
Osprey - 13
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 1 (female)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*VIRGINIA RAIL - 1 (heard)
*SORA - 2 (heard)
American Coot - 400
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 1
Killdeer - 7
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 49
*DUNLIN - 16
Ring-billed Gull - 58
Herring Gull - 207
Great Black-backed Gull - 29
Least Tern - 5
Caspian Tern - 461
Forster's Tern - 3
Mourning Dove - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Blue Jay - 17
Fish Crow - 7
Tree Swallow - 58
Barn Swallow - 19
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 5
Marsh Wren - 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
American Robin - 4
European Starling - 5
Yellow Warbler - 11
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (Myrtle)
Prairie Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 3 (Yellow)
Common Yellowthroat - 27
Chipping Sparrow - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 14
Song Sparrow - 26
Swamp Sparrow - 21
White-throated Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 249
Common Grackle - 9 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 16
Orchard Oriole - 2
American Goldfinch - 26

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox - 3

REPTILES
Painted Turtle - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Spring Peeper - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 2 (male)
Cabbage White - 11
Orange Sulphur - 4
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Spring Azure - 3 (form violacea)
American Lady - 5

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 3


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland