Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 20, 2008
0715 - 1610
Weather: AM: sunny 56 degrees, ENE 7 K; PM: sunny, 71 degrees, NNE 3 K
Observers:  Danny Bystrak, Kevin Graff, George Jett, Brad Lanning, Dan 
Lebbin, Mikey Lutmerding, Nico Sarbanes, Gene Scarpulla, Joe Turner, Marcia 
Watson
(Part of the Baltimore Fall Count)

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 61
Mute Swan - 3
Wood Duck - 37
Gadwall - 6
American Wigeon - 40
American Black Duck - 9
Mallard - 47
Blue-winged Teal - 4
Northern Shoveler - 95
Northern Pintail - 7
Green-winged Teal - 43
Lesser Scaup - 3 (2 male,1 female)
Ruddy Duck - 4
unidentified duck species - 135
Pied-billed Grebe - 42
Double-crested Cormorant - 48
*AMERICAN BITTERN - 5
Great Blue Heron - 34
Great Egret - 13
Snowy Egret - 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2
Bald Eagle - 2 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 2 (juvenile)
American Kestrel - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 3 (1 adult, 2 immature)
American Coot - 24
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 11
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 9
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 71
*PIPING PLOVER - 1
*KILLDEER - 10
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 5
*WILLET - 1
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 12
*SANDERLING - 6
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 347
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 3
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 27
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 7
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 2
*DUNLIN - 1
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 8
unidentified dowitcher species - 1
*WILSON'S SNIPE - 1
Laughing Gull - 8
Ring-billed Gull - 23
Herring Gull - 53
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 5 (2 third-winter, 3 adult-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 387
Caspian Tern - 205
Forster's Tern - 1
*ROYAL TERN - 2
Mourning Dove - 7
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
unidentified hummingbird species - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
unidentified empid flycatcher species - 1
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Horned Lark - 1
Tree Swallow - 20
Carolina Wren - 5
House Wren - 5
Marsh Wren - 4
European Starling - 64
Tennessee Warbler - 1
Yellow Warbler - 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 6 (Western)
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 10
Canada Warbler - 1
Song Sparrow - 3
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting - 1
Bobolink - 11
Red-winged Blackbird - 200
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 9

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 2
*CHECKERED WHITE - 2
Cabbage White - 17
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 3 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 80
Cloudless Sulphur - 7
Gray Hairstreak - 9
Variegated Fritillary - 3
Pearl Crescent - 23
Painted Lady - 3
Common Buckeye - 10
Monarch - 32
Clouded Skipper - 1
Fiery Skipper - 1
Sachem - 4

MOTHS
Virginia Tiger Moth - 1 (Woolly Bear)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 3
unidentified darner species - 2
Wandering Glider - 1
Black Saddlebags - 3

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 3
Rambur's Forktail - 1

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
*EUROPEAN HORNET - 2 (Vespa crabro Linnaeus) (NEW FOR THE ISLAND)


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland