Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 18, 2007
0710 - 1700
AM: sunny, 71 degrees, NNW 10K; PM: sunny, 77 degrees, NW 5K
Observers: Kevin Graff, Elaine Hendricks, Bob Ringler, Gene Scarpulla, Ben 
Weinstein

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Snow Goose - 1
Canada Goose - 50
Wood Duck - 89
American Black Duck - 11
Mallard - 649 (including 2 young)
Northern Shoveler - 1
Green-winged Teal - 11
Greater Scaup - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 75
Double-crested Cormorant - 124
*LEAST BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 15
*GREAT EGRET - 121
Snowy Egret - 17
Little Blue Heron - 1 (white immature)
Green Heron - 1
Glossy Ibis - 6
Osprey - 8
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature)
*SORA - 1
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 4
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 49
Killdeer - 16
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 12
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 64
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 8
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 5
*WILLET - 1 (Western)
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 282
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 4
*SANDERLING - 6
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - ~1300
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 10
unidentified Semipalmated/Western Sandpiper species - 708
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 95
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 10
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 17
*STILT SANDPIPER - 41
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 172
Laughing Gull - 134
Bonaparte's Gull - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 259
Herring Gull - 29
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (3rd-winter)
Great Black-backed Gull - 410
Least Tern - 3
Caspian Tern - 524
*BLACK TERN - 1
Forster's Tern - 135
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 50
Chimney Swift - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Traill's Flycatcher - 1
unidentified Empidonax flycatcher - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 6
Purple Martin - 2
Tree Swallow - 50
Bank Swallow - 23
Barn Swallow - 130
Carolina Wren - 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 5
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 980
Yellow Warbler - 5
American Redstart - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 7
Song Sparrow - 18
Swamp Sparrow - 5
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 8
Bobolink - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 132
Brown-headed Cowbird - 59
Orchard Oriole - 1
House Finch - 5
American Goldfinch - 23

(NOTE: For those of you that keep bird reports of Hart-Miller Island, please 
delete the 20 Dunlin from the August 11, 2007 report.)

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 3
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 (yellow)
*CHECKERED WHITE - 1
Cabbage White - 1
Clouded Sulphur - 2
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 24
Cloudless Sulphur - 4
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Pearl Crescent - 1
Monarch - 40 (including 5 caterpillars)
Least Skipper - 4

MOTHS
Spotted Datana - 87 (caterpillars)
Milkweed Tussock - 41 (caterpillars)
Yellow-collared Scape - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 25
Halloween Pennant - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 9
Common Whitetail - 1 (juvenile male)
Needham's Skimmer - 13
Blue Dasher - 11
Black Saddlebags - 7

DAMSELFLIES
Rambur's Forktail - ~5000


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland