Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 16, 2008
0715 - 1650
Weather: AM: sunny, 70 degrees, N 5 K; PM: sunny, 85 degrees, N 1 K
Observers:  Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 31
Wood Duck - 61
American Black Duck - 5
Mallard - 98
Mallard x domestic hybrid - 1
Northern Shoveler - 2
Green-winged Teal - 2
Lesser Scaup - 2
Ruddy Duck - 11
Pied-billed Grebe - 90
Double-crested Cormorant - 62
Great Blue Heron - 22
Great Egret - 79
Snowy Egret - 4
Little Blue Heron - 7 (2 adult, 5 immature)
Tricolored Heron - 1 (adult)
Osprey - 13
Bald Eagle - 1 (immature)
Cooper's Hawk - 1 (immature)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (immature)
American Coot - 23 (including 3 small juvenile)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 7
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 16
*KILLDEER - 13
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 6
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 1007
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 2
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 50
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 2
*STILT SANDPIPER - 5
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 8
Laughing Gull - 33
*FRANKLIN'S GULL - 1 (1st-summer)
Ring-billed Gull - 401
Herring Gull - 32
Great Black-backed Gull - 364
Least Tern - 15
Caspian Tern - 547
Common Tern - 2
Forster's Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 32
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Purple Martin - 2
Tree Swallow - 6
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 43
Carolina Wren - 6
Gray Catbird - 5
European Starling - 115
Common Yellowthroat - 7
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 17
Swamp Sparrow - 5
Northern Cardinal - 2
Bobolink - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 24
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 23

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 4
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3 (1 female black; 2 yellow)
unidentified dark swallowtail species - 3
Cabbage White - 11
Orange Sulphur - 31
Cloudless Sulphur - 4
Summer Azure - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 1
Painted Lady - 2
unidentified lady species - 1
Viceroy - 4
Monarch - 12
Silver-spotted Skipper - 10

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Needham's Skimmer - 3
Black Saddlebags - 7
Halloween Pennant - 7

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Carolina Grasshopper - 1
Harlequin Bug - 1
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 2
Spotted Cucumber Beetle - 1
Red Velvet Ant (Cow Killer) - 1 (female)


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland