Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 21, 2007
0700 - 1650
AM: sunny, 70 degrees, NNW 10K; PM: sunny, 83 degrees, NNW 5K
Observers: Danny Bystrak, J.B. Churchill, Kevin Graff, JoAnna Leachman, 
Mikey Lutmerding, Taylor McLean, Gene Scarpulla, Jeff Shenot, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Snow Goose - 1
Canada Goose - 188
Wood Duck - 95
Gadwall - 9
American Wigeon - 2
American Black Duck - 6
Mallard - 153 (including 11 young)
Green-winged Teal - 21
Ruddy Duck - 7
Pied-billed Grebe - 149
Double-crested Cormorant - 71
*LEAST BITTERN - 5
Great Blue Heron - 15
Great Egret - 15
Snowy Egret - 3
Little Blue Heron - 1
Cattle Egret - 1
Glossy Ibis - 15
Osprey - 8
Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adult, 1 immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*COMMON MOORHEN - 7 (5 adults, 2 downy young)
*AMERICAN COOT - 24 (22 adults, 2 downy young)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 21
Killdeer - 39
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 2
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 6
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 5
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 288
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 494
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 25
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 103
unidentified peep species - 117
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 8
*STILT SANDPIPER - 9
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 93
unidentified shorebird species - 50
Laughing Gull - 24
*LITTLE GULL - 1 (1st-summer)
Bonaparte's Gull - 6
Ring-billed Gull - 359
Herring Gull - 26
Great Black-backed Gull - 421
Least Tern - 45
Caspian Tern - 87
*BLACK TERN - 1
Common Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 2
*ROYAL TERN - 1
*BLACK SKIMMER - 1
Mourning Dove - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 9
Purple Martin - 5
Tree Swallow - 109
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 26
Bank Swallow - 566
Cliff Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 450
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 7
Gray Catbird - 8
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 90
Yellow Warbler - 3
Common Yellowthroat - 14
Song Sparrow - 20
Swamp Sparrow - 8
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 123
Common Grackle - 1 (Purple)
Orchard Oriole - 1
House Finch - 9
American Goldfinch - 15

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 3
Raccoon - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail - 1
Black Swallowtail - 2
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 4 (3 yellow, 1 black female)
Cabbage White - 17
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 17
Cloudless Sulphur - 3
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 5
Pearl Crescent - 8
Painted Lady - 1
Red Admiral - 1
Common Buckeye - 1
Monarch - 13
Silver-spotted Skipper - 8
*HORACE'S DUSKYWING - 4 (new for island)
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1
Common Checkered Skipper - 1
Least Skipper - 9
Sachem - 3
Broad-winged Skipper - 6

MOTHS
Ailanthus Webworm Moth - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 19
Halloween Pennant - 5
Eastern Pondhawk - 12
Needham's Skimmer - 44
Blue Dasher - 30
Black Saddlebags - 3

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 6
Rambur's Forktail - 106


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland