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Hart-Miller Island: April 18, 2009

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Eugene J. Scarpulla

Date:

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:39:31 -0400

POSTED FOR KEVIN GRAFF
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Observations at Hart-Miller Island
April 18, 2009
0705 - 1445
Weather: AM: Sunny, 42 degrees, W 2 K;  PM: sunny, 74 degrees, SE 13 K
Observers: Kevin Graff, Natalia Larson, Shawn Larson, Dale Murphy

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 26
Mute Swan - 30 (pair on nest)
Wood Duck - 2
Gadwall - 52
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 9
Northern Shoveler - 20
Green-winged Teal - 7
Ring-necked Duck - 72
Greater Scaup - 1 (drake)
Lesser Scaup - 6
Bufflehead - 43
Ruddy Duck - 28
*RED-THROATED LOON - 1
Common Loon - 5
Pied-billed Grebe - 22
Horned Grebe - 12
Double-crested Cormorant - 62
Great Blue Heron - 11
Great Egret - 3
Little Blue Heron - 1 (adult)
Green Heron - 1
Osprey - 12
Bald Eagle - 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*VIRGINIA RAIL - 1
American Coot - 112
Killdeer - 10
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 4
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 1 (alternate plumage)
*DUNLIN - 9
*LITTLE GULL - 1 (breeding plumage adult)
Laughing Gull - 1
Bonaparte's Gull - 122
Ring-billed Gull - 41
Herring Gull - 9
Great Black-backed Gull - 39
Caspian Tern - 150
Mourning Dove - 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Chimney Swift - 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 1
Fish Crow - 7
Purple Martin - 2
Tree Swallow - 65
Barn Swallow - 37
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
American Robin - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 48
Palm Warbler - 3 (Yellow)
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 2
*SEASIDE SPARROW - 1
Song Sparrow - 19
Swamp Sparrow - 8
White-throated Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 6
Red-winged Blackbird - 77
Common Grackle - 39
Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 9

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Northern Green Frog - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 11
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 4
Question Mark - 1

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 17
unidentified tiger beetle species - 3
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 22
unidentified lady beetle species - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland