Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 12, 2007
2400 - 0330: railing; 2 miles by foot (Scarpulla only)
0730 - 1555: regular survey; 6 miles by foot
Weather: - Overnight: clear, 70 degrees, humid, still, mosquitoes
- AM: partly cloudy, 70 degrees, wind NE 5K
- PM: sunny, 78 degrees, SW 2K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Ben Weinstein
(NORTH AMERICAN MIGRATION COUNT)

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 15 (including 4 downy young)
Mute Swan - 43
Wood Duck - 14
Gadwall - 2
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 128
Northern Shoveler - 5
Greater Scaup - 1 (female)
Bufflehead - 1 (male)
Ruddy Duck - 39
Pied-billed Grebe - 13
Double-crested Cormorant - 19
*LEAST BITTERN - 2
Great Blue Heron - 12
*GREAT EGRET - 14 (2 standing very close side-by-side atop a muskrat hut on 
edge of Phragmites stand, each preening itself, at one point their necks 
appeared to cross and touch)
Snowy Egret - 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
Osprey - 11
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*KING RAIL - 1
*VIRGINIA RAIL - 2
*SORA - 1
American Coot - 81
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 357
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 23
Killdeer - 6
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 12
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 4
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 6
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 19
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 65
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 108
*DUNLIN - 105
*STILT SANDPIPER - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 19
Laughing Gull - 4
Bonaparte's Gull - 8
Ring-billed Gull - 83
Herring Gull - 190
Great Black-backed Gull - 104
Least Tern - 1
Caspian Tern - 244
Forster's Tern - 1
*ROYAL TERN - 2
Mourning Dove - 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 5
Fish Crow - 1
Tree Swallow - 23
Barn Swallow - 36
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 3
House Wren - 4
Marsh Wren - 12
American Robin - 1
*GRAY CATBIRD - 5 (including 1 leucistic; white except a few rump/tail 
feathers)
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 6
Yellow Warbler - 11
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6 (Myrtle)
Prairie Warbler - 2
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 27
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 7
Song Sparrow - 27
Swamp Sparrow - 10
Blue Grosbeak - 2 (male)
Red-winged Blackbird - 70
Common Grackle - 4 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 4
Orchard Oriole - 6
Baltimore Oriole - 1
American Goldfinch - 5

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 2
Raccoon - 2

REPTILES
Painted Turtles - 4

AMPHIBIANS
Spring Peeper - 1
Southern Leopard Frog - 6
Bullfrog - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 3
Cabbage White - 4
Orange Sulphur - 4
Eastern Tailed Blue - 2
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 2
Question Mark - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 3
Halloween Pennant - 1

DAMSELFLIES
unidentified damselfly species -  100


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland