Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 15, 2007
0705 - 1700
AM: cloudy, 65 degrees, NNW 20K; PM: mostly sunny, 70 degrees, W 20K
Observers: Nico Sarbanes, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson
[Part of the Baltimore Fall Migration Count]
[Nico's photos: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicobirdphotos/sets/72157602033772090/

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Snow Goose - 1
Canada Goose - 179
Mute Swan - 3
Wood Duck - 95
Gadwall - 35
American Wigeon - 3
American Black Duck - 13
Mallard - 730
Blue-winged Teal - 129
Northern Shoveler - 503
Northern Pintail - 1
Green-winged Teal - 174
Ring-necked Duck - 1 (male)
Ruddy Duck - 25
Pied-billed Grebe - 74
Double-crested Cormorant - 39
Great Blue Heron - 13
Great Egret - 13
Snowy Egret - 5
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 (juvenile)
Turkey Vulture - 1
Osprey - 4
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 3 (juvenile)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 1
*MERLIN - 3
Peregrine Falcon - 2
Common Moorhen - 6
American Coot - 17
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 17
Killdeer - 2
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 79
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 2
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 421
*SANDERLING - 21
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 62
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 12
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 169
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 11
*STILT SANDPIPER - 14
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 20
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 2
Laughing Gull - 99
Ring-billed Gull - 89
Herring Gull - 79
Great Black-backed Gull - 372
Caspian Tern - 214
Rock Pigeon - 36
Mourning Dove - 6
Chimney Swift - 5
American Crow - 3
Tree Swallow - 5
Barn Swallow - 17
European Starling - 780
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 3
Song Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
Bobolink - 27
Red-winged Blackbird - 45
American Goldfinch - 11

MAMMALS
Raccoon - 1

REPTILES
Black Rat Snake - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 2
Orange Sulphur - 49
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 17
unidentified lady species - 1
Common Buckeye - 17
Monarch - 357
Least Skipper - 3
Sachem - 1

MOTHS
Salt Marsh - 1 (caterpillar)
Yellow-collared Scape - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 4
Eastern Pondhawk - 5
Needham's Skimmer - 2
Black Saddlebags - 15

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 1
Rambur's Forktail - ~500


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland