Observations at Hart-Miller Island
September 19, 2009
0705 - 1715
Weather: AM: sunny, 60 degrees, N 10 K; PM: sunny, 68 degrees, N 2 K
Observers: Chris Murray, Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson
(part of the Baltimore Fall Bird Count)

*SPECIES OF NOTES

Canada Goose - 203
Mute Swan - 1
Wood Duck - 10
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 111
Blue-winged Teal - 11
Northern Shoveler - 71
Green-winged Teal - 200
Ruddy Duck - 2
unidentified duck species - 200
Pied-billed Grebe - 81
Double-crested Cormorant - 129
Great Blue Heron - 20
Great Egret - 14
Snowy Egret - 10
Little Blue Heron - 1 (calico)
Cattle Egret - 4
Turkey Vulture - 2
Osprey - 3
Bald Eagle - 1 (immature)
Northern Harrier - 3 (juvenile)
Peregrine Falcon - 3 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 6
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 13
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 53
Killdeer - 17
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 4
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 1
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 15
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 93
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 2
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 80
unidentified peep species - 50
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 2
*DUNLIN - 2
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 4 (3 juvenile, 1 winter)
Laughing Gull - 11
Ring-billed Gull - 33
Herring Gull - 102
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 9 (1 1st-W; 1 1st-S; 1 2nd-W; 1 3rd-W; 1 3rd-S; 
4 Ad-S)
Great Black-backed Gull - 587
Caspian Tern - 428
Forster's Tern - 13
Mourning Dove - 10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 3
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Blue Jay - 2
Tree Swallow - 37
Carolina Chickadee - 3
Carolina Wren - 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
*SWAINSON'S THRUSH - 1
Wood Thrush - 1
Gray Catbird - 7
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 325
Cedar Waxwing - 2
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 13 (Western)
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 5
Common Yellowthroat - 8
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 83
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 27

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 3

REPTILES
Eastern Gartersnake - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 2
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1 (black female)
Cabbage White - 14
Clouded Sulphur - 13
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 53
Cloudless Sulphur - 2
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1
Summer Azure - 2
Pearl Crescent - 3
American Lady - 1
Common Buckeye - 6
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Viceroy - 1
Monarch - 35
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 3
Sachem - 1

MOTHS
Chickweed Geometer - numerous
Virginia Tiger Moth - 1 (Yellow Bear caterpillar)
Milkweed Tussock Moth - 1 (caterpillar)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 5

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Black Saddlebags - 4

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 4
Rambur's Forktail - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
Editor, The Maryland Entomologist