Observations at Hart-Miller Island
June 23, 2007
0710 - 1650
AM: sunny, 60 degrees, NNW 5K; PM: sunny, 80 degrees, SE 5K
Observers: Ralph Cullison, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

*SNOW GOOSE - 1
Canada Goose - 142
Mute Swan - 7
Wood Duck - 33
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 270
Northern Shoveler - 2 (male)
Ruddy Duck - 2 (male)
Pied-billed Grebe - 43
*BROWN PELICAN - 1 (bird species #286 for the island)
Double-crested Cormorant - 36
*LEAST BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 23
Great Egret - 16
Snowy Egret - 4
*GLOSSY IBIS - 13
Osprey - 10 (including 1 nestling)
American Kestrel - 1
*COMMON MOORHEN - 2
American Coot - 7
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 11
Killdeer - 13
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 7 (including 2 downy young)
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 14
*DUNLIN - 1
Laughing Gull - 8
*FRANKLIN'S GULL - 1 (1st-summer)
*LITTLE GULL - 1 (1st-summer)
Bonaparte's Gull - 6
Ring-billed Gull - 165
Herring Gull - 46
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (1st-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 543
Least Tern - 13
*GULL-BILLED TERN - 1
Caspian Tern - 79
Forster's Tern - 2
*ROYAL TERN - 1
*BLACK SKIMMER - 1
Mourning Dove - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 6
Purple Martin - 2
Tree Swallow - 23
Barn Swallow - 23
Carolina Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 4
American Robin - 2
Gray Catbird - 3
European Starling - 6
Yellow Warbler - 3
Common Yellowthroat - 14
Song Sparrow - 40
Swamp Sparrow - 7
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 1 (male)
Red-winged Blackbird - 211
Common Grackle - 26 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 16
Orchard Oriole - 3
House Finch - 5
American Goldfinch - 7

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 2
Raccoon - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 3
Cabbage White - 23
Orange Sulphur - 21
Red Admiral - 3
Monarch - 5

MOTHS
Salt Marsh - 15 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 8
Halloween Pennant - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 100
Needham's Skimmer - 23
Blue Dasher - 236
Black Saddlebags - 3

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 120


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland