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Hart-Miller Island: August 23, 2008

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Gene Scarpulla

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Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:25:59 +0000

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 23, 2008
0720 - 1700
Weather: AM: mostly cloudy 70 degrees, ESE 8 K; PM: mostly sunny, 85 degrees, N 1 K
Observers:  Barbara Gearhart, Kevin Graff, Nico Sarbanes, Gene Scarpulla, Leslie Starr, Debbie Terry, Joe Turner, Marcia Watson
 
*SPECIES OF NOTE
 
Canada Goose - 8
Wood Duck - 21
American Wigeon - 5
American Black Duck - 7
Mallard - 209
Blue-winged Teal - 7
Northern Shoveler - 13
Green-winged Teal - 4
Lesser Scaup - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Ruddy Duck - 4
Pied-billed Grebe - 67
Double-crested Cormorant - 96
Great Blue Heron - 31
Great Egret - 44
Snowy Egret - 12
Little Blue Heron - 1 (immature)
Tricolored Heron - 1 (adult)
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2
Osprey - 15
Bald Eagle - 2 (immature)
Northern Harrier - 1 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 1
American Coot - 5 (4 adult, 1 immature)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 8
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 34
*KILLDEER - 14
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 2
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*WILLET - 1 (Western)
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 37
*WHIMBREL - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 2900
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 2
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 270
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 2
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 1
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 7
Laughing Gull - 34
*FRANKLIN'S GULL - 1 (1st-summer)
Ring-billed Gull - 336
Herring Gull - 71
Great Black-backed Gull - 425
Least Tern - 7
Caspian Tern - 383
Forster's Tern - 8
*ROYAL TERN - 1
Mourning Dove - 18
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 22
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow -38
Barn Swallow - 52
Carolina Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 1
Gray Catbird - 5
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 150
Yellow Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 5
Song Sparrow - 16
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 8
Bobolink - 8
Red-winged Blackbird - 41
Brown-headed Cowbird - 10
House Finch - 14
American Goldfinch - 28
 
MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
 
BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 8
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2
Spicebush Swallowtail - 3
unidentified dark swallowtail species - 3
Cabbage White - 12
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 2 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 43
Cloudless Sulphur - 8
Little Yellow - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Summer Azure - 3
Great Spangled Fritillary - 1
Pearl Crescent - 7
Painted Lady - 3
Common Buckeye - 2
Monarch - 18 (17 adult, 1 caterpillar)
Silver-spotted Skipper - 6
Common Checkered Skipper - 2
Least Skipper - 1
Fiery Skipper - 1
Peck's Skipper - 1
Sachem - 1 (female)
 
DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 13
Twelve-spotted Skipper - 1 (female)
Needham's Skimmer - 15
Blue Dasher - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 9
Black Saddlebags - 21
Halloween Pennant - 2
 
DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 6
Rambur's Forktail - 2
 
MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Carolina Grasshopper - 1
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 5
 
 
Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland