Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 9, 2009
0700 - 1500
Weather: AM: sunny, 65 degrees, SW 5 K; PM: sunny, 76 degrees, SSE 4 K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Ben Weinstein
(MAY COUNT)
Hours walked: 8; Miles walked: 6; Bird species: 81

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 18 (including 1 young)
Mute Swan - 7
Gadwall - 2
American Black Duck - 1
Mallard - 30 (including 2 young)
Lesser Scaup - 2
Red-breasted Merganser - 6
Common Loon - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 33
Double-crested Cormorant - 46
*GREAT CORMORANT - 1 (2nd-year)
Great Blue Heron - 11
Great Egret - 4
Snowy Egret - 2
Tricolored Heron - 1
Osprey - 11
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*VIRGINIA RAIL - 2
*SORA - 1
*COMMON MOORHEN - 1
American Coot - 30
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 79
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 9
Killdeer - 13
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 7
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 3
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 3
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 802
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 41
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 2
*DUNLIN - 73
*STILT SANDPIPER - 3
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 3
Bonaparte's Gull - 55
Ring-billed Gull - 18
Herring Gull - 260
Great Black-backed Gull - 78
Least Tern - 8
Caspian Tern - 344
*BLACK TERN - 1
Forster's Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 3
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 6
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Blue Jay - 3
Unidentified crow species - 1
Tree Swallow - 18
Barn Swallow - 15
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 5
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 8
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 7
Yellow Warbler - 18
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (Myrtle)
Blackpoll Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 31
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 3
Song Sparrow - 24
Swamp Sparrow - 8
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 115
Common Grackle - 7 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
Orchard Oriole - 9
Baltimore Oriole - 2
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 11

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle - 3

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 2
Cabbage White - 5
Clouded Sulphur - 8
Orange Sulphur - 1
Pearl Crescent - 1
Monarch - 3
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland