Observations at Hart-Miller Island
June 30, 2007
0705 - 1653
AM: cloudy, 70 degrees, NE 10K; PM: sunny, 80 degrees, NE 5K
Observers: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

*SNOW GOOSE - 1
Canada Goose - 192
Mute Swan - 2
Wood Duck - 151 (including numerous young)
American Wigeon - 1 (male)
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 403
Northern Shoveler - 1 (male)
Green-winged Teal - 1 (male)
Lesser Scaup - 1 (male)
Ruddy Duck - 6 (5 male, 1 female)
Pied-billed Grebe - 102 (including numerous young)
Double-crested Cormorant - 65
*LEAST BITTERN - 5
Great Blue Heron - 31
Great Egret - 18
Snowy Egret - 8
Cattle Egret - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 (adult)
*GLOSSY IBIS - 46
Osprey - 13 (including 1 nestling)
Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*VIRGINIA RAIL - 1
*COMMON MOORHEN - 2
American Coot - 7
Killdeer - 15
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 2
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 12 (including 1 downy young)
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 24
Laughing Gull - 40
*LITTLE GULL - 1 (1st-summer)
Bonaparte's Gull - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 29 (including 1 juvenile)
Herring Gull - 115
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 2 (1st-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 620
Least Tern - 24
Caspian Tern - 93
*BLACK TERN - 1
Common Tern - 2
Mourning Dove - 9
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
Chimney Swift - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 6
White-eyed Vireo - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Purple Martin - 2
Tree Swallow - 41
Bank Swallow - 50
Barn Swallow - 310
Carolina Wren - 1
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 5
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 6
European Starling - 60
Cedar Waxwing - 2
Yellow Warbler - 3
Common Yellowthroat - 23
Song Sparrow - 40
Swamp Sparrow - 23
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 215
Common Grackle - 16 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 20
Orchard Oriole - 6
House Finch - 7
American Goldfinch - 16

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 3
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail - 2
Black Swallowtail - 5
unidentified dark swallowtail species - 2
Cabbage White - 34
Orange Sulphur - 50
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Summer Azure - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 5
*RED ADMIRAL - 108
Monarch - 4
Broad-winged Skipper - 2

MOTHS
Salt Marsh - 15 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Virginia Ctenucha - 2
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 5
Halloween Pennant - 14
Eastern Pondhawk - 13
*LITTLE BLUE DRAGONLET - 2 (new for the island)
Seaside Dragonlet - 11
Needham's Skimmer - 23
Blue Dasher - 24
Carolina Saddlebags - 1
Black Saddlebags - 8

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 46

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Punctured Tiger Beetle - 3
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle - 1
Red Milkweed Beetle - 2
Honey Bee - 4
mason wasp - 3
Seaside Grasshopper - 4
Carolina Grasshopper - 2
Small Milkweed Bug - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland