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Hart-Miller Island: May 5, 2007

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Eugene J. Scarpulla

Date:

Mon, 7 May 2007 21:47:37 -0500

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 5, 2007
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: mostly cloudy, 60 degrees, wind ESE 5K; PM: cloudy, 73 degrees, 
WSW 10K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Kevin Graff

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 25
Mute Swan - 43 (1 on nest)
Wood Duck - 2
Gadwall - 24
Mallard - 51
Northern Shoveler - 6
Greater Scaup - 3
Lesser Scaup - 4
Bufflehead - 1
Ruddy Duck - 36
Common Loon - 2
Pied-billed Grebe - 20
Double-crested Cormorant - 91
Great Blue Heron - 15
Great Egret - 11
Snowy Egret - 1
Turkey Vulture - 1
Osprey - 19 (8 nests)
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 1 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adult; Craighill Rear Range Light)
American Coot - 136
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 221
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 13
Killdeer - 5
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 3
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 2
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 8
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 13
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 1
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 67
*DUNLIN - 40
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1
unidentified shorebird species - 15
Laughing Gull - 2
Bonaparte's Gull - 24
Ring-billed Gull - 153
Herring Gull - 207
Great Black-backed Gull - 47
Least Tern - 3
Caspian Tern - 189
Forster's Tern - 2
Mourning Dove - 3
Chimney Swift - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 4
Blue Jay - 3
Fish Crow - 2
Tree Swallow - 30
Barn Swallow - 28
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 4
House Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 6
American Robin - 7
Gray Catbird - 6 (including 1 leucistic; white except a few rump/tail 
feathers)
European Starling - 3
Yellow Warbler - 10
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (Myrtle)
Common Yellowthroat - 32
Savannah Sparrow - 5
Song Sparrow - 38
Swamp Sparrow - 12
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 1 (male)
Red-winged Blackbird - 145
Common Grackle - 12 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 11
Orchard Oriole - 6
House Finch - 5
American Goldfinch - 8
House Sparrow - 1 (male) [rare on the island]

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 3
Cabbage White - 6
Orange Sulphur - 4
Pearl Crescent - 4

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 4

DAMSELFLIES
unidentified damselfly species - 50 (immatures)


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland