Location:     Hart-Miller Island
Observation date:     9/13/08  7AM-5PM
Notes:     The CURLEW SANDPIPER was seen well, very near a DUNLIN.
Sadly, a photo was not taken.  In my opinion, the CURLEW SANDPIPER
looked just like this:
http://www.somersetbirder.fsnet.co.uk/portugal05_files/image027.jpg
It was seen by one other observer.
Number of species:     71

Canada Goose
Wood Duck
GADWALL
AMERICAN WIGEON
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
AMERICAN BITTERN     1
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
TRICOLORED HERON     1
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON     3
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Cooper's Hawk
PEREGRINE FALCON     2
American Coot
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER     1
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
AMERICAN AVOCET
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
RUDDY TURNSTONE     1
RED KNOT     1, possibly 2
SANDERLING
Semipalmated Sandpiper
WESTERN SANDPIPER     1
Least Sandpiper
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER     2
PECTORAL SANDPIPER
DUNLIN     1
CURLEW SANDPIPER     1
STILT SANDPIPER     1
Short-billed Dowitcher
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER     1
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL     3
Great Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
ROYAL TERN
Forster's Tern
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
BOBOLINK
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch

Unlike Kevin, I didn't keep full tallies of all of the species, so
Gene might want to post those numbers.  Simply put, it was an amazing
day on the island.

Good Birding,

Dan Haas
West Annapolis, MD