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Hart-Miller Island: June 6, 2009

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"Eugene J. Scarpulla"

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Eugene J. Scarpulla

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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:19:56 -0400

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
June 6, 2009
0705 - 1615
Weather: AM: m. cloudy, 65 degrees, NW 5 K; PM: m. cloudy, 75 degrees,  0 K
Observers: Brad Lanning, Bob Ringler, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 40
Mute Swan - 44
Wood Duck - 17
Gadwall - 2 (male)
American Black Duck - 25 (including 13 downy young)
American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid - 1
Mallard - 352 (including 32 downy young)
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (male)
Greater Scaup - 3 (male)
Lesser Scaup - 2 (male)
Red-breasted Merganser - 1 (female)
Ruddy Duck - 8 (5 male, 3 female)
Pied-billed Grebe - 45
Double-crested Cormorant - 125 (mostly immatures on shell island)
Great Blue Heron - 19
Great Egret - 5
Snowy Egret - 3
Glossy Ibis - 1
Osprey - 8
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*COMMON MOORHEN - 2
American Coot - 1
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 91
Killdeer - 14
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 12 (3 nests with eggs [North Cell])
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 9
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 3
*RED KNOT - 5
*SANDERLING - 8
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 430
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 4
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 29
*DUNLIN - 11
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 3
Laughing Gull - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 169
Herring Gull - 115
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (third-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull - 306 (1 on nest on shell island)
Least Tern - 8
Caspian Tern - 339
Forster's Tern - 3
Royal Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 4
*BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 4
Fish Crow - 3
Purple Martin - 9
Tree Swallow - 14
Barn Swallow - 24
Carolina Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 8
European Starling - 5
Cedar Waxwing - 1
Yellow Warbler - 12
American Redstart - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 18
Song Sparrow - 25
Swamp Sparrow - 9
Northern Cardinal - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 170
Common Grackle - 6 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 15
Orchard Oriole - 4
House Finch - 8
American Goldfinch - 15

MAMMALS
Muskrat - 1
Red Fox - 1

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 73
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 3 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 23
Summer Azure - 1
Pearl Crescent - 1
Mourning Cloak - 1
American Lady - 1
unidentified lady species - 1
Silver-spotted Skipper - 3
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1

DRAGONFLIES
unidentified glider species - 2
Black Saddlebags - 1

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 1
Rambur's Forktail - 1

BEETLES
Margined Leatherback - 1
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland