Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 11, 2008
0705 - 1705
Weather: AM: sunny 55 degrees, NNE 5 K; PM: sunny, 70 degrees, N 5 K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 71
Mute Swan - 3
Gadwall - 47
American Wigeon - 26
American Black Duck - 3
Mallard - 24
Northern Shoveler - 208
Green-winged Teal - 50
Lesser Scaup - 4
Ruddy Duck - 288
Pied-billed Grebe - 35
Double-crested Cormorant - 71
Great Blue Heron - 20
Great Egret - 4
Snowy Egret - 1
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 2 (immature)
American Kestrel - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adult)
American Coot - 250
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 11
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 1
*KILLDEER - 6
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 18
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 4
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 1
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*DUNLIN - 14
Laughing Gull - 14
Ring-billed Gull - 79
Herring Gull - 148
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (adult-winter)
Great Black-backed Gull - 582
Caspian Tern - 53
*ROYAL TERN - 2
Mourning Dove - 7
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 3 (Yellow-shafted)
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 410
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (Myrtle)
Palm Warbler - 20 (19 Western, 1 Yellow)
Common Yellowthroat - 2
Eastern Towhee - 2
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Field Sparrow - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 7
Song Sparrow - 36
White-throated Sparrow - 3
Dark-eyed Junco - 5 (Slate-colored)
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 265
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 8

REPTILES
Eastern Ratsnake - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 47
Clouded Sulphur - 5
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 27 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 312
Cloudless Sulphur - 4
Red-banded Hairstreak - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 2
Variegated Fritillary - 4
Pearl Crescent - 6
American Lady - 1
Painted Lady - 6
Common Buckeye - 92
Monarch - 10
Clouded Skipper - 1 (female)
Sachem - 4

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth - 1 (Woolly Bear)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 11

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet- 3
Rambur's Forktail - 1

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Seaside Grasshopper - 23
Fall Field Cricket - many calling
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 1
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle - 2
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 1
Honey Bee - 27


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland