Observations at Hart-Miller Island
May 23, 2009
0705 - 1645
Weather: AM: sunny, 70 degrees, SSW 6 K; PM: sunny, 80 degrees, SE 7 K
Observers: Stan Arnold, Tom Feild, Barbara Gearhart, Kevin Graff, Dan Haas, 
Dave Kidwell, Geraldine King, Brad Lanning, Shawn Larson, Peter Osenton, Bob 
Ringler, Nico Sarbanes, Gene Scarpulla, Debbie Terry, Marcia Watson, Mike 
Welch

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 29
Mute Swan - 26
Wood Duck - 9
Gadwall - 2
American Black Duck - 5
Mallard - 55 (including 8 young)
Blue-winged Teal - 6
Green-winged Teal - 4
Greater Scaup - 3 (2 male, 1 female)
Lesser Scaup - 1
Ruddy Duck - 10
Common Loon - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 33
Double-crested Cormorant - 101
Least Bittern - 2
Great Blue Heron - 12
Great Egret - 6
Snowy Egret - 3
Tricolored Heron - 1
Green Heron - 1
Glossy Ibis - 2
Osprey - 11
Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adult)
American Coot - 5
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 453
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 13
Killdeer - 16 (including 4 downy young)
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 12
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*WHIMBREL - 1 (North American)
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 670
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 128
unidentified sandpiper species - 85
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 1
*DUNLIN - 64
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 8
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 1 (female)
Bonaparte's Gull - 4
Ring-billed Gull - 134
Herring Gull - 75
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 2 (1 third-summer, 1 adult-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 235
Least Tern - 15
Caspian Tern - 175
Mourning Dove - 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Chimney Swift - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 3
unidentified Empidonax flycatcher species - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 4
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Fish Crow - 2
Purple Martin - 7
Tree Swallow - 31
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 12
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2
Swainson's Thrush - 1
Gray Catbird - 8
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 5
Yellow Warbler - 11
Pine Warbler - 1
Blackpoll Warbler - 3
American Redstart - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 6
Wilson's Warbler - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 12
Swamp Sparrow - 11
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 4
*DICKCISSEL - 1
Bobolink - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 85
Common Grackle - 30 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
Orchard Oriole - 7
Baltimore Oriole - 1
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 12

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox - 2

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle - 6
Eastern Snapping Turtle - 1 (presumably pulled Blue-winged Teal below water 
surface)

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 7
Spicebush Swallowtail - 2
unidentified dark swallowtail species - 1
Cabbage White - 13
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 2 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 10
Variegated Fritillary - 3
Pearl Crescent - 4
Common Buckeye - 1
Monarch - 1
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1
Common Sootywing - 1
Least Skipper - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 6
Needham's Skimmer - 1
Black Saddlebags - 2

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - many
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle - 1
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland