Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 26, 2007
0705 - 1640
AM: sunny, 70 degrees, W 1K; PM: mostly sunny, 84 degrees, NE 7K
Observers: Danny Bystrak, Tom Feild, Kathy Fleming, Kevin Graff, Brad 
Lanning, Gene Scarpulla, Jeff Shenot, Jim Stasz.

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 40 (including 14 downy young)
Mute Swan - 7
Wood Duck - 44 (including 6 downy young)
Gadwall - 1
American Black Duck - 8
American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid - 1
Mallard - 90
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (male)
Green-winged Teal - 2
Canvasback - 1 (male)
Bufflehead - 1 (male)
Hooded Merganser - 1(female/immature)
Ruddy Duck - 19
Pied-billed Grebe - 9
Double-crested Cormorant - 7
*LEAST BITTERN - 4
Great Blue Heron - 11 (1 in North Cell eating an ~11" Brown Bullhead 
[Ameiurus nebulosus])
Great Egret - 9
Snowy Egret - 1
Cattle Egret - 1
*GLOSSY IBIS - 4
Osprey - 12
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*COMMON MOORHEN - 2
American Coot - 12
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 519
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 23
Killdeer - 9
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 8
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 7
*WILLET - 2 (1 Eastern, 1 unknown)
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 21
*RED KNOT - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 595 (many floating around like miniature 
phalaropes)
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 24
unidentified peep species - 383
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 4
*DUNLIN - 12
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 14 (including 6 L. g. griseus)
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 3 (2 female, 1 male)
Bonaparte's Gull - 5
Ring-billed Gull - 70
Herring Gull - 61
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 3 (2 2nd-S, 1 3rd-S)
Great Black-backed Gull - 238
Least Tern - 10
Caspian Tern - 137
Common Tern - 1
*ARCTIC TERN - 1 (Second island record.  Observed standing and in flight 
from 1300 - 1420.  Good comparison of characteristics with the Common Tern 
that was observed after the Arctic Tern flew away.  Photographed by Tom 
Field and Brad Lanning.) (Previous record May 22, 1999 - Don Burggraf, Paul 
Fofonoff, Kim Hudyma, Kathy Neugebauer, Phil Powers, Gene Scarpulla, Jim 
Stasz.)
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 3
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 8
Purple Martin - 3
Tree Swallow - 34
Barn Swallow - 30
Carolina Wren - 1
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 14
American Robin - 2
Gray Catbird - 8
European Starling - 6
Cedar Waxwing - 2
Yellow Warbler - 20
American Redstart - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 28
Song Sparrow - 29
Swamp Sparrow - 12
Northern Cardinal - 2
*ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK - 1 (female)
Blue Grosbeak - 3
*BOBOLINK - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 134
Brown-headed Cowbird - 9
Orchard Oriole - 5
Baltimore Oriole - 2
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 6

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox -  3

REPTILES
Northern Water  Snake - 1

FRESHWATER FISH
*BROWN BULLHEAD (Ameiurus nebulosus) - 1 (new species for island)
(~11", being eaten by Great Blue Heron in North Cell)

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 2
Cabbage White - 27
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 3
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 2
Red Admiral - 1
Silver-spotted Skipper - 3
unidentified spread-winged skipper species - 2
Least Skipper - 5

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 39
Calico Pennant - 2
Needham's Skimmer - 6
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 1
*PAINTED  SKIMMER - 1 (new species for island)
unidentified glider species - 7
Black Saddlebags - 8

DAMSELFLIES
unidentified bluet species - 2000
Rambur's Forktail - 2000


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland