Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 2, 2008
0745 - 1650
Weather: AM: cloudy, 75 degrees, WSW 2 K; PM: sunny, 90 degrees, SSW 5 K
Observers:  Stan Arnold, Gene Scarpulla, Clint Schipper, Jeff Shenot

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 40
Wood Duck - 9
Gadwall - 2
American Black Duck - 17
Mallard - 116
Northern Shoveler - 2
Green-winged Teal - 3
Lesser Scaup - 2
Ruddy Duck - 11
Pied-billed Grebe - 40
Double-crested Cormorant - 100
Great Blue Heron - 10
Great Egret - 60
Snowy Egret - 9
Little Blue Heron - 3 (1 adult, 2 immature)
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 5 (2 adult, 3 juvenile)
Glossy Ibis - 18
Osprey - 14
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 12
*KILLDEER - 8
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 28
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 8
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 5
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 114
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 2818
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 11
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 133
*DUNLIN - 1 (breeding plumage)
*STILT SANDPIPER - 23
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 23 (19 hendersoni, 4 griseus)
Laughing Gull - 29
*FRANKLIN'S GULL - 1 (1st-summer)
Ring-billed Gull - 431
Herring Gull - 5
Great Black-backed Gull - 522
Least Tern - 72
Caspian Tern - 289
*BLACK TERN - 2
Forster's Tern - 94
Mourning Dove - 17
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 7
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Fish Crow - 1
Purple Martin - 6
Tree Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 2
Cliff Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 176 (including 1 albino)
Carolina Wren - 4
Marsh Wren - 2
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 7
European Starling - 182
Yellow Warbler - 8
Common Yellowthroat - 11
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 18
Swamp Sparrow - 10
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Indigo Bunting - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 260
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
House Finch - 19
American Goldfinch - 8

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox - 3

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail - 1
Black Swallowtail - 4
Spicebush Swallowtail - 5
Cabbage White - 35
Orange Sulphur - 21
Cloudless Sulphur - 7
Gray Hairstreak - 4
Eastern Tailed Blue - 11
Summer Azure - 2
Pearl Crescent - 7
unidentified lady species - 2
Red Admiral - 1
Common Buckeye - 1
Monarch - 13
Silver-spotted Skipper - 2
Horace's Duskywing - 2
Common Sootywing - 1
Least Skipper - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 2
Needham's Skimmer - 6
Black Saddlebags - 3
Halloween Pennant - 2

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 1

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland