Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 20, 2007
0715 - 1700
AM: sunny, 63 degrees, NNW 10K; PM: sunny, 71 degrees, WSW 20K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Snow Goose - 1
Canada Goose - 450
Mute Swan - 10
Wood Duck - 2
Gadwall - 33
American Wigeon - 216
American Black Duck - 3
Mallard - 66
Blue-winged Teal - 8 (4 male, 4 female)
Northern Shoveler - 406
Northern Pintail - 85
Green-winged Teal - 993
*CANVASBACK - 1 (male)
Lesser Scaup - 12
Ruddy Duck - 133
Pied-billed Grebe - 85
*HORNED GREBE - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 59
Great Blue Heron - 9
Great Egret - 2
Osprey - 3
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 3 (juvenile)
Cooper's Hawk - 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adult)
American Coot - 194
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 9
Killdeer - 2
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 38
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 176
*DUNLIN - 25
Laughing Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 63
Herring Gull - 425
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 5 (2 third-winter, 3 adult-winter)
Great Black-backed Gull - 1264
Caspian Tern - 20
Rock Pigeon - 21
Mourning Dove - 8
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Carolina Wren - 4
European Starling - 36
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (Myrtle)
Song Sparrow - 49
White-throated Sparrow - 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 310
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 13

MAMMALS
Raccoon - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 2
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 9
Common Buckeye - 65
Monarch - 41

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger - 1 (Woolly Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape - 10
Zebra Caterpillar - 1 (Zebra Caterpillar)

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 6
Rambur's Forktail - 3


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland