Observations at Hart-Miller Island
June 13, 2009
0700 - 1450
Weather: AM: sunny, 70 degrees, NE 5 K; PM: m. sunny, 83 degrees,  N 1 K
Observers: Rob Ostrowski, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson
(The bird observations were primarily done by Marcia and Rob, while Gene was 
doing his bi-weekly native bee surveys.)

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 210
Mute Swan - 39
Wood Duck - 28
American Black Duck - 6
American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid - 1
Mallard - 464 (including 17 downy young)
Blue-winged Teal - 2 (male)
Greater Scaup - 1 (male)
Lesser Scaup - 3 (2 male, 1 female)
Ruddy Duck - 7
Pied-billed Grebe - 46
Double-crested Cormorant - 150 (mostly immatures on shell island)
*LEAST BITTERN - 1
Great Blue Heron - 17
Great Egret - 16
Snowy Egret - 8
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 (adult)
Osprey - 8
American Coot - 1
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 13
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 15
Killdeer - 20
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 8 (2 on nests [North Cell])
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 5
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*RED KNOT - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 172
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 3
*DUNLIN - 18
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 2
Laughing Gull - 17
Ring-billed Gull - 252
Herring Gull - 15
Great Black-backed Gull - 140 (1 on nest on shell island)
Least Tern - 14
Caspian Tern - 136
Mourning Dove - 8
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 3
Fish Crow - 4
unidentified crow species - 6
Tree Swallow - 25
Bank Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 24
Carolina Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 10
Eastern Bluebird - 1
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 9
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 27
Yellow Warbler - 10
Common Yellowthroat - 22
Yellow-breasted Chat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 30
Swamp Sparrow - 13
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 240
Common Grackle - 7 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 13
Orchard Oriole - 3
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 15

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White
Clouded Sulphur
Clouded/Orange Sulphur (female white form)
Orange Sulphur
Summer Azure
Monarch
unidentified lady species
Silver-spotted Skipper
Least Skipper

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner
Needham's Skimmer
Black Saddlebags

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet
Rambur's Forktail

BEETLES
Margined Leatherback
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland