Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 19, 2007
0705 - 1655
AM: sunny, 50 degrees, wind NNW 10K; PM: sunny, 69 degrees, WNW 15K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 29 (including 4 downy young)
Mute Swan - 54
Wood Duck - 40 (including 10 downy young)
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 184
unidentified scaup species - 1 (female)
Red-breasted Merganser - 3 (female)
Ruddy Duck - 11
Pied-billed Grebe - 8
Double-crested Cormorant - 45
*LEAST BITTERN - 2
Great Blue Heron - 16
Great Egret - 8
Snowy Egret - 1
*TRICOLORED HERON - 1
*GLOSSY IBIS - 5
Osprey - 10
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Cooper's Hawk - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 1 (female)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*COMMON MOORHEN - 2
American Coot - 34
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 64
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 22
Killdeer - 11 (including 4 downy young)
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 20
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 9
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 31
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*SANDERLING - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 187
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 191
unidentified peep species - 884
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*DUNLIN - 487
*STILT SANDPIPER - 6
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 54
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 1 (female)
Bonaparte's Gull - 17
Ring-billed Gull - 198
Herring Gull - 63
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 2 (adult-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 284
Least Tern - 8
Caspian Tern - 100
Forster's Tern - 1
*ROYAL TERN - 2
Mourning Dove - 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
*ALDER FLYCATCHER - 1 (male) [heard & seen by Marcia]
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 3
White-eyed Vireo - 1
American Crow - 1
Fish Crow - 2
unidentified crow species - 2
Tree Swallow - 40
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 43
Carolina Chickadee - 2
Tufted Titmouse - 2
Carolina Wren - 5
House Wren - 4
Marsh Wren - 7
American Robin - 6
Gray Catbird - 7
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 3
Yellow Warbler - 12
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 (Myrtle)
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 3
Common Yellowthroat - 12
*WILSON'S WARBLER - 1 (male)
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 25
Swamp Sparrow - 13
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 140
Common Grackle - 2 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
Orchard Oriole - 7
American Goldfinch - 15

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
Raccoon - 1

REPTILES
Painted Turtle - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 3
Orange Sulphur - 1
Monarch - 1

DAMSELFLIES
unidentified damselfly species - 50


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland