Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 18, 2008
0700 - 1500
AM: cloudy, 60 degrees, wind SSE 10K; PM: cloudy/rainy, 66 degrees, SSE 15K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 12
Mute Swan - 7
Wood Duck - 1
Gadwall - 9
American Black Duck - 6
Mallard - 25
Lesser Scaup - 1 (male)
Red-breasted Merganser - 2 (female)
Ruddy Duck - 69
Pied-billed Grebe - 9 (incl. 2 on nest)
Double-crested Cormorant - 63
Great Blue Heron - 33
Great Egret - 9
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
Osprey - 12 (at least 6 nests)
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adult) (at Craighill Channel Lower Range Rear Light 
nest site)
*SORA - 2
*COMMON MOORHEN - 1
American Coot - 23
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 3
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 12
Killdeer - 6
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 2
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 6
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 7
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 1850
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 64
unidentified peep species - 285
*DUNLIN - 759
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 3
unidentified dowitcher species - 20
Ring-billed Gull - 6
Herring Gull - 44
Great Black-backed Gull - 65
Least Tern - 1
Caspian Tern - 205
Forster's Tern - 5
Mourning Dove - 2
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 5
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Fish Crow - 6
unidentified crow species - 1
Tree Swallow - 18
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3
Barn Swallow - 7
Carolina Wren - 5
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 5
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 2
Yellow Warbler - 20
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (Myrtle)
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 14
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Song Sparrow - 12
Swamp Sparrow - 6
Red-winged Blackbird - 120
Common Grackle - 6 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 4
Orchard Oriole - 5
Baltimore Oriole - 1
American Goldfinch - 25

MAMMALS
Coyote - (two sets of fresh tracks)
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Pearl Crescent - 1

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland