Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 29, 2007
0710 - 1700
AM: sunny, 60 degrees, NNW 15K; PM: sunny, 71 degrees, NNW 12K
Observers: Doug English, Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler, Gene Scarpulla, Bill 
Sefton

(Thanks to the other observers for continuing the count after I left with 
the Great Horned Owl)

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 99
Mute Swan - 10
Wood Duck - 40
Gadwall - 8
American Wigeon - 112
American Black Duck - 10
Mallard - 61
Northern Shoveler - 395
Northern Pintail - 2
Green-winged Teal - 638
Lesser Scaup - 5
Ruddy Duck - 74
Pied-billed Grebe - 111
Double-crested Cormorant - 34
Great Blue Heron - 10
Great Egret - 7
Snowy Egret - 3
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 1 (juvenile)
American Kestrel - 2
Merlin - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adult)
Common Moorhen - 6 (full-grown immatures)
American Coot - 46 (including 1 full-grown immature)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 8
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 13
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 10
Killdeer - 1
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 10
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 1150
*SANDERLING - 21
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1 (the only peep of the day!!!)
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 6
*DUNLIN - 6
*STILT SANDPIPER - 4
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 4
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1
Laughing Gull - 11
Ring-billed Gull - 45
Herring Gull - 32
Great Black-backed Gull - 431
Caspian Tern - 49
Mourning Dove - 2
*BUDGERIGAR - 1 (blue with white wings; in European Starling flock)
*GREAT HORNED OWL - 1 (entangled in kite cord)
Chimney Swift - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 2 (Yellow-shafted)
Eastern Phoebe - 4
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Tree Swallow - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 3
Tufted Titmouse - 2
Carolina Wren - 2
Gray Catbird - 5
Northern Mockingbird - 3
European Starling - 1030
Nashville Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3
Black-throated Green Warbler - 2
Palm Warbler - 11 (Western)
Common Yellowthroat - 9
Eastern Towhee - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 13
Song Sparrow - 16
Swamp Sparrow - 8
White-throated Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 275
*EASTERN MEADOWLARK - 1
Common Grackle - 1 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
American Goldfinch - 2

MAMMALS
Raccoon - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 2
unidentified dark swallowtail species - 1
Cabbage White - 31
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 64
Cloudless Sulphur - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 9
Gray Hairstreak - 5
Eastern Tailed Blue - 12
Variegated Fritillary - 9
Pearl Crescent - 42
Red Admiral - 1
Common Buckeye - 26
Monarch - 1189
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Common Checkered Skipper - 1
Least Skipper - 1
Fiery Skipper - 4
Sachem - 2

MOTHS
Virginian Tiger - 1 (Yellow Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape - 19

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 16
Needham's Skimmer - 6
Blue Dasher - 1
Wandering Glider - 1
Black Saddlebags - 19

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 22
Rambur's Forktail - 386


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland