Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 10, 2009
0710 - 1510
Weather: AM Cloudy, 65 degrees WNW 5 K; PM: Cloudy, 65 degrees, WNW 10 K, 
gusts 19 K
(ANNE ARUNDEL BIRD CLUB FIELD TRIP)
Observers: Dick Adams, Stan Arnold, Ed Carlson, Judith Dworkin, Kevin Graff, 
Jim Moore, Dotty Mumford,, Colin Rees, Gene Scarpulla, Paul Speyser, Gary 
Van Velsir, Pamela Van Velsir, Marcia Watson, Gerald Winegrad, Susan Zevin

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 64
Mute Swan - 1
Gadwall - 63
American Wigeon - 59
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 378
Blue-winged Teal - 5
Northern Shoveler - 31
Northern Pintail - 13
Green-winged Teal - 326
Redhead - 1
Lesser Scaup - 4
Ruddy Duck - 12
Pied-billed Grebe - 58 (including at least 6 downy young)
Double-crested Cormorant - 47
Great Blue Heron - 11
Great Egret - 4
Black-crowned Night Heron - 3
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
Northern Harrier - 1 (juvenile)
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1
Merlin - 3
Peregrine Falcon - 2 (adult)
American Coot - 54
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 33
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 2
Killdeer - 5
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 2
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 8
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 52
*SANDERLING - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 42
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 9
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 2
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 3
*DUNLIN - 8
*STILT SANDPIPER - 6
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1
unidentified dowitcher species - 4
Laughing Gull - 4
Ring-billed Gull - 70
Herring Gull - 109
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 3 (adult)
Great Black-backed Gull - 338
Caspian Tern - 130
*ROYAL TERN - 1
Rock Pigeon - 6
Mourning Dove - 28
Chimney Swift - 12
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 4
Tree Swallow - 11
Carolina Wren - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 143
Palm Warbler - 1 (Western)
Savannah Sparrow - 9
Song Sparrow - 19
Swamp Sparrow - 2
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 151
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
American Goldfinch - 23
69 species

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1

REPTILES
Eastern Gartersnake - 1
Eastern Ratsnake - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 3
Orange Sulphur - 12
Pearl Crescent - 1
Common Buckeye - 8
Monarch - 84

MOTHS
Achemon Sphinx Moth - 1 (caterpillar)
Isabella Tiger Moth - 7 (Woolly Bear caterpillar)
Virginian Tiger Moth - 2 (Yellow Bear caterpillar)
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - 1 (adult)
Zebra Caterpillar Moth - 8 (Zebra Caterpillar)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Black Saddlebags - 12

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 1

BEETLES
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 2
Spotted Cucumber Beetle - 1


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
Editor, The Maryland Entomologist