Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 6, 2007
0715 - 1700
AM: foggy, 70 degrees, SSE 1K; PM: sunny, 82 degrees, SE 3K
Observers: Kathy Fleming, Kevin Graff, Gene Scarpulla, Matt Tillett

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 378
Mute Swan - 14
Wood Duck - 15
Gadwall - 11
American Wigeon - 126
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 185
Northern Shoveler - 147
Northern Pintail - 71
Green-winged Teal - 469
Ruddy Duck - 221
Pied-billed Grebe - 62
Double-crested Cormorant - 33
*AMERICAN BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 8
Great Egret - 12
Snowy Egret - 4
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 2 (1 male, 1 juvenile)
Cooper's Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adult)
*SORA - 2
Common Moorhen - 8 (full-grown immatures)
American Coot - 253 (including 1 full-grown immature)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 3
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 8
Killdeer - 4
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 67
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 200
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 21
unidentified peep species - 5
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 5
Laughing Gull - 6
Ring-billed Gull - 79
Herring Gull - 319
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 9 (2 1st-W, 1 3rd-W, 6 Ad-W)
Great Black-backed Gull - 1715
Caspian Tern - 76
Mourning Dove - 12
Chimney Swift - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 4 (Yellow-shafted)
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3
Gray Catbird - 4
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Brown Thrasher - 
European Starling - 590
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (female)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6 (Myrtle)
Pine Warbler - 2
Palm Warbler - 18 (2 Yellow, 16 Western)
American Redstart - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 2
Eastern Towhee - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 3
Song Sparrow - 21
Swamp Sparrow - 4
White-throated Sparrow - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 215
Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
House Finch - 5

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 15
Orange Sulphur - 22
Cloudless Sulphur - 3
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Pearl Crescent - 19
Common Buckeye - 10
Monarch - 46

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger - 1 (Woolly Bear)
Virginian Tiger - 10 (Yellow Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape - 24
Smeared Dagger - 3 (Smartweed Caterpillar)
Zebra Caterpillar - 39 (Zebra Caterpillar)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 2

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 30
Rambur's Forktail - 56


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland