Observations at Hart-Miller Island
December 15, 2007
0710 - 1400
AM: partly cloudy, 30 degrees, NE 10 K; PM: cloudy, 35 degrees, NNE 12 K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

(part of the Baltimore Harbor Christmas Bird Count)
hours traveled on foot: 7
miles traveled on foot: 6

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 239
Mute Swan - 4
Gadwall - 51
American Wigeon - 1 (male)
American Black Duck - 36
Mallard - 61
Northern Shoveler - 485
Northern Pintail - 10
Green-winged Teal - 281
Canvasback - 6
Ring-necked Duck - 3
Greater Scaup - 65
Lesser Scaup - 250
Bufflehead - 18
Hooded Merganser - 1 (male)
Ruddy Duck - 243
Common Loon - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 7
Great Blue Heron - 5
Turkey Vulture - 3
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 4 (1 female, 3 immature)
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
*MERLIN - 1
American Coot - 11
Ring-billed Gull - 47
Herring Gull - 6
Great Black-backed Gull - 2
Mourning Dove - 21
Northern Flicker - 1
unidentified crow species - 1
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 4
European Starling - 9
Savannah Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 22
Swamp Sparrow - 1
*SNOW BUNTING - 17
Red-winged Blackbird - 105
American Goldfinch - 8


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland