Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 12, 2009
0710 - 1705
Weather: AM: Cloudy, 60 degrees, WNW 10 K; PM: cloudy, 70 degrees, NW 10 K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTES

Canada Goose - 87
Mute Swan - 1
Wood Duck - 6
American Black Duck - 3
Mallard - 13
Northern Shoveler - 22
Northern Pintail - 1 (female)
Green-winged Teal - 66
Ruddy Duck - 5
unidentified  duck species - 600
Pied-billed Grebe - 26
Double-crested Cormorant - 41
Great Blue Heron - 9
Great Egret - 12
Snowy Egret - 16
Little Blue Heron - 1 (adult)
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 (juvenile)
Glossy Ibis - 1
Osprey - 4
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
Northern Harrier - 1 (juvenile)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 3 (2 adult, 1 juvenile)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 1
Killdeer - 5
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 2
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 3
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 174
*MARBLED GODWIT - 2
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 35
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 12
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 2
*DUNLIN - 1
Laughing Gull - 27
Ring-billed Gull - 34
Herring Gull - 156
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 3 (1 1st-winter, 1 2nd-winter, 1 3rd-winter)
Great Black-backed Gull - 687
Caspian Tern - 218
*BLACK TERN - 2
*ROYAL TERN - 2
Mourning Dove - 25
Chimney Swift - 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Tree Swallow - 12
Barn Swallow - 21
Carolina Wren - 3
Gray Catbird - 1
European Starling - 360
Common Yellowthroat - 6
Song Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 75
Brown-headed Cowbird - 42
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 2
Monarch - 27

MOTHS
Chickweed Geometer - numerous
Isabella Tiger Moth - 1 (Woolly Bear)

DAMSELFLIES
Rambur's Forktail - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
Editor, The Maryland Entomologist