Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 8, 2007
0710 - 1700
AM: sunny,  71 degrees,  SSE 4K; PM: sunny,  84 degrees, ESE 8K
Observers: Danny Bystrak, Ross Geredien, Kevin Graff, JoAnna Leachman, Mikey 
Lutmerding, Robert Schaffer, Jeff Shenot, Carol Smith, David Smith, Michael 
Welch

(Thanks to Danny and Kevin for tallying the counts in my absence.)

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Snow Goose - 1
Canada Goose - 23
Mute Swan - 11
Wood Duck - 96
Gadwall - 19
American Wigeon - 5
American Black Duck - 5
Mallard - 140
Blue-winged Teal - 16
Northern Shoveler - 60
Northern Pintail - 1
Green-winged Teal - 58
Ring-necked Duck - 1
Lesser Scaup - 1
Ruddy Duck - 18
Pied-billed Grebe - 63
Double-crested Cormorant - 70
Great Blue Heron - 11
Great Egret - 9
Snowy Egret - 4
Turkey Vulture - 1
Osprey - 4
Bald Eagle - 1
Northern Harrier - 3
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
*SORA - 2
Common Moorhen - 6
American Coot - 23
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 3
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 16
Killdeer - 5
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 1
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 95
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 2
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 54
*WILLET - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 695
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*RED KNOT - 1
*SANDERLING - 5
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 57
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 136
unidentified peep species - 1200
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 4
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 8
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 8
*STILT SANDPIPER - 6
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 51
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 2
Laughing Gull - 268
Ring-billed Gull - 150
Herring Gull - 25
Great Black-backed Gull - 1290
Caspian Tern - 369
Forster's Tern - 1
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 44
Chimney Swift - 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Purple Martin - 2
Tree Swallow - 51
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
Bank Swallow - 6
Cliff Swallow - 3
Barn Swallow - 37
Carolina Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 5
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 220
Yellow Warbler - 4
American Redstart - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 20
*SEASIDE SPARROW - 1
Song Sparrow - 3
Swamp Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 82
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
American Goldfinch - 9

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail - 1
Black Swallowtail - 7
Cabbage White - 8
Clouded Sulphur - 6
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 4 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 146
Cloudless Sulphur - 10
Gray Hairstreak - 6
unidentified hairstreak species - 4
Eastern Tailed Blue - 42
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 67
Painted Lady - 1
Common Buckeye - 23
Monarch - 212 (including 6 caterpillars)
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Least Skipper - 74
Fiery Skipper - 2
Sachem - 2
Broad-winged Skipper - 3

MOTHS
Virginian Tiger - 6 (Yellow Bear caterpillars)
Large Yellow Underwing - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 4
Eastern Pondhawk - 16
Needham's Skimmer - 19
Blue Dasher - 26
Wandering Glider - 9
Black Saddlebags - 53

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 70
Rambur's Forktail - 89


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland