Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 11, 2007
0710 - 1655
AM: mostly sunny, 65 degrees, NW 5K; PM: sunny, 77 degrees, NNE 5K
Observers: Don Burggraf, Kevin Graff, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Snow Goose - 1
Canada Goose - 33
Wood Duck - 7
American Black Duck - 12
Mallard - 404 (including 8 young)
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (male)
Northern Pintail - 1 (male)
Greater Scaup - 2 (male)
Ruddy Duck - 6 (3 male, 3 female)
Pied-billed Grebe - 76
Double-crested Cormorant - 87
*LEAST BITTERN - 2
Great Blue Heron - 17
Great Egret - 18
Snowy Egret - 7
Little Blue Heron - 3
Glossy Ibis - 18
Osprey - 10
Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adult, 1 immature)
*MERLIN - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*VIRGINIA RAIL - 4
*COMMON MOORHEN - 1 (adult)
*AMERICAN COOT - 32 (including 1 young)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 5
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 21
Killdeer - 9
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 48
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 13
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*WILLET - 1 (Eastern)
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 99
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 494
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 5
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 57
unidentified peep species - 95
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 2
*DUNLIN - 20
*STILT SANDPIPER - 57
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 41
Laughing Gull - 164
*LITTLE GULL - 1 (1st-summer-to-2nd-winter)
Bonaparte's Gull - 11
Ring-billed Gull - 431
Herring Gull - 8
Great Black-backed Gull - 285
Least Tern - 56
Caspian Tern - 470
*BLACK TERN - 1
Common Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 7
unidentified Sterna tern species - 7
Mourning Dove - 20
Chimney Swift - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 8
Purple Martin - 25
Tree Swallow - 34
Bank Swallow - 46
Cliff Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 65
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 5
Marsh Wren - 3
Gray Catbird - 6
European Starling - 330
Yellow Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 5
Field Sparrow - 1
*VESPER SPARROW - 1
Song Sparrow - 26
Swamp Sparrow - 10
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 2
*BOBOLINK - 23
Red-winged Blackbird - 93
Common Grackle - 15 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 16
Orchard Oriole - 2
House Finch - 5
American Goldfinch - 13

MAMMALS
*NORTHERN SHORT-TAILED SHREW - 1 (2nd island record)
Muskrat - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 6
Cabbage White - 3
Clouded Sulphur - 2
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 2 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 30
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
*LITTLE YELLOW - 1
Painted Lady - 1
Red Admiral - 3
Monarch - 37 (including 2 caterpillars)

MOTHS
Spotted Datana - 10 (caterpillars)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 10
Halloween Pennant - 6
Eastern Pondhawk - 41
Seaside Dragonlet - 12
Needham's Skimmer - 5
Blue Dasher - 139
Spot-winged Glider - 1
Black Saddlebags - 30

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 1
Rambur's Forktail - 13


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland