Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 13, 2007
0710 - 1700
AM: sunny, 50 degrees, SSW 5K; PM: sunny, 60 degrees, W 15K
Observers: Kevin Graff, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson, Ben Weinstein

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 341
Mute Swan - 11
Wood Duck - 8
Gadwall - 188
American Wigeon - 187
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 61
Blue-winged Teal - 11
Northern Shoveler - 562
Northern Pintail - 6
Green-winged Teal - 1148
Ruddy Duck - 202
Pied-billed Grebe - 30
Double-crested Cormorant - 26
Great Blue Heron - 13
Great Egret - 1
Turkey Vulture - 1
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
Northern Harrier - 5 (1 male, 1 female, 3 juvenile)
Cooper's Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1
*MERLIN - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Common Moorhen - 1 (full-grown immature)
American Coot - 334
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 11
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - ~0.1 (decapitated head only)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 1
Killdeer - 12
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 40
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 11
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 327
*SANDERLING - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 9
unidentified peep species - 15
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 7
*DUNLIN - 88
*STILT SANDPIPER - 8
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 3
Laughing Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 19
Herring Gull - 259
Great Black-backed Gull - 451
Caspian Tern - 14
Mourning Dove - 2
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 3 (Yellow-shafted)
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Tree Swallow - 80
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 11
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 3
European Starling - ~500
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 27 (Myrtle)
Palm Warbler - 12 (8 Yellow, 4 Western)
Eastern Towhee - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 7
Song Sparrow - 33
Swamp Sparrow - 7
White-throated Sparrow - 2
unidentified sparrow species - 15
Dark-eyed Junco - 1 (Slate-colored)
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - ~300
*EASTERN MEADOWLARK - 2
Common Grackle - 16 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 4

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 14
Orange Sulphur - 24
Variegated Fritillary - 9
Pearl Crescent - 2
American Lady - 2
Common Buckeye - 13
Monarch - 257

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger - 1 (Woolly Bear)
Virginian Tiger - 6 (Yellow Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape - 34
Smeared Dagger - 3 (Smartweed Caterpillar)
Zebra Caterpillar - 31 (Zebra Caterpillar)

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 15
Rambur's Forktail - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland