Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 22, 2007
0710 - 1700
AM: cloudy, 70 degrees, S 5K; PM: partly sunny, 83 degrees, SE 5K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Robin Todd, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Snow Goose - 1
Canada Goose - 129
Mute Swan - 10
Wood Duck - 59
Gadwall - 4
American Wigeon - 12
American Black Duck - 10
Mallard - 610
Blue-winged Teal - 4
Northern Shoveler - 1148
Northern Pintail - 86
Green-winged Teal - 210
Ruddy Duck - 19
unidentified duck species - 31
Pied-billed Grebe - 115
Double-crested Cormorant - 50
Great Blue Heron - 40
Great Egret - 16
Snowy Egret - 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
Osprey - 2
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 2 (juvenile)
Cooper's Hawk - 1
*SORA - 2
Common Moorhen - 6
American Coot - 41
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 75
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 3
Killdeer - 3
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 68
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 305
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 136
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 4
unidentified peep species - 164 
*STILT SANDPIPER - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 14
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1
Laughing Gull - 47
Ring-billed Gull - 106
Herring Gull - 274
Great Black-backed Gull - 1075
Caspian Tern - 120
Mourning Dove - 17
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Carolina Wren - 4
Gray Catbird - 5
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 387
Yellow Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 1 (Western)
Common Yellowthroat - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 5
Song Sparrow - 8
Northern Cardinal - 3
Bobolink - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 195
Common Grackle - 3 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
American Goldfinch - 32

REPTILES
Black Rat Snake - 1 (juvenile; dead)

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 11
Orange Sulphur - 83
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 14
Common Buckeye - 22
Monarch - 85
Least Skipper - 2
unidentified duskywing species - 3

MOTHS
Virginian Tiger - 3 (Yellow Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape - 7

DRAGONFLIES
Black Saddlebags - 8

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 11
Rambur's Forktail - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland