Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 13, 2008
0710 - 1655
Weather: AM: mostly sunny 75 degrees, WSW 1 K; PM: mostly sunny, 83 degrees, 
E 4 K
Observers:  Steve Collins, Diane Ford, Dan Haas, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 65
Wood Duck - 43
Gadwall - 5
American Wigeon - 2
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 136
Northern Shoveler - 70
Green-winged Teal - 230
Ruddy Duck - 8
Pied-billed Grebe - 55
Double-crested Cormorant - 80
*AMERICAN BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 15
Great Egret - 48
Snowy Egret - 13
Tricolored Heron - 1 (immature)
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3
Osprey - 4
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (immature)
American Coot - 18 (including 1 juvenile)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 86
*KILLDEER - 8
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 3
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 2
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 19
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 20
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*RED KNOT - 1
*SANDERLING - 20
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 349
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 1
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 112
unidentified peep species - 100
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 2
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 5
*DUNLIN - 1 (winter plumage)
*CURLEW SANDPIPER - 1 (winter plumage)
*STILT SANDPIPER - 3
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 8
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1 (juvenile)
unidentified dowitcher species - 1
Laughing Gull - 37
Ring-billed Gull - 54
Herring Gull - 191
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 3 (adult)
Great Black-backed Gull - 2022
Caspian Tern - 425
Forster's Tern - 1
*ROYAL TERN - 1
Mourning Dove - 20
Chimney Swift - 15
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Tree Swallow - 7
Barn Swallow - 1
Carolina Wren - 4
Marsh Wren - 2
Gray Catbird - 6
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 69
Yellow Warbler - 1 (male)
Common Yellowthroat - 8
Song Sparrow - 15
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting - 1
Bobolink - 20
Red-winged Blackbird - 250
Brown-headed Cowbird - 25
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 16

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 3
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
*CHECKERED WHITE - 1
Cabbage White - 7
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 2 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 30
Cloudless Sulphur - 23
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Eastern Tailed Blue - 5
Variegated Fritillary - 3
Pearl Crescent - 4
Painted Lady - 7
unidentified lady species - 3
Red Admiral - 1
Common Buckeye - 18 (10 adult, 8 caterpillar)
Monarch - 9
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1
unidentified duskywing species - 3
Clouded Skipper - 1
Peck's Skipper - 1
Sachem - 35

MOTHS
Salt Marsh Moth - 1 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Milkweed Tussock Moth - 1 (caterpillar)
Smeared Dagger Moth - 2 (Smartweed Caterpillar)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 12
Common Whitetail - 1 (male)
Needham's Skimmer - 1
Great Blue Skimmer - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Wandering Glider - 25
Black Saddlebags - 30
unidentified red-colored saddlebags species - 2 (female/immature male)

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 40
Rambur's Forktail - 350

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 450
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 4
*a robber fly - 1 (Diogmites neoternatus) (NEW FOR THE ISLAND)
Honey Bee - 10


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland