Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 4, 2008
0715 - 1500
Weather: AM: sunny 60 degrees, ENE 3 K; PM: sunny, 70 degrees, NNE 6 K
Observers: JB Churchill, Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler, Nico Sarbanes, Gene 
Scarpulla, Robin Todd

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 146
Mute Swan -  5
Wood Duck - 6
Gadwall - 85
American Wigeon - 76
American Black Duck - 13
Mallard - 32
Blue-winged Teal - 1
Northern Shoveler - 216
Northern Pintail - 8
Green-winged Teal - 85
Greater Scaup - 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Lesser Scaup - 7
Ruddy Duck - 108
Pied-billed Grebe - 63
Double-crested Cormorant - 130
*AMERICAN BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 19
Great Egret - 6
Snowy Egret - 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 (immature)
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Merlin - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
American Coot - 128
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 14
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 9
*KILLDEER - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 1
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 1 (large female; size of a White-rumped)
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 9
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*DUNLIN - 1
Laughing Gull - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 34
Herring Gull - 125
Great Black-backed Gull - 312
Caspian Tern - 120
Rock Pigeon - 13 (1 with plastic bands: left green; right blue WTCM 1362)
Mourning Dove - 17
Chimney Swift - 10
Belted Kingfisher - 1 (female)
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 5
Eastern Phoebe - 6
Blue Jay - 2
Horned Lark - 1
Tree Swallow - 28
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 5
House Wren - 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Gray Catbird - 5
Northern Mockingbird - 8
European Starling - 400
Northern Parula - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10 (Myrtle)
Pine Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 9 (7 Western, 1 Yellow, 1 unknown)
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 8
Savannah Sparrow - 9
Song Sparrow - 57
*LINCOLN'S SPARROW - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 8
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Bobolink - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 180
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
House Finch - 9
American Goldfinch - 21

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 42
Clouded Sulphur - 7
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 13 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 152
Cloudless Sulphur - 3
Sleepy Orange - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Pearl Crescent - 8
American Lady - 2
Painted Lady - 4
Red Admiral - 2
Common Buckeye - 55
Monarch - 80
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1
Sachem - 11

MOTHS
Achemon Sphinx Moth - 1 (caterpillar)
Isabella Tiger Moth - 2 (Woolly Bear)
Virginian Tiger Moth - 4 (Yellow Bear)

DRAGONFLIES
Wandering Glider - 1
unidentified glider species - 1
Black Saddlebags - 3

DAMSELFLIES
unidentified bluet species - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 1

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Carolina Grasshopper - 3
Fall Field Cricket - many calling
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 40
Spotted Cucumber Beetle - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland