Hart-Miller Island: 11/02/97
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 03 Nov 1997 00:07:43 -0500
This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Sunday, November 2, 1997.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.
Observation: 0800-1700
Early AM: moderate rain, 55 degrees F., Winds SE 20K
Late AM : heavy rain, 60 degrees F., Winds W 20K
PM : mostly sunny, 65 degrees F., Winds NW 15K
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 32
Great Blue Heron 2
Canada Goose 5 (flyover)
American Black Duck 14 (8 male, 6 female)
Mallard 88 (47 male, 41 female)
Ring-necked Duck 1 (male, arrival)
Lesser Scaup 1 (female, arrival)
Bufflehead 10 (2 adult male, 1 first winter male,
7 female)
Ruddy Duck 1 (female)
Bald Eagle 1 (immature)
Cooper's Hawk 1 (immature)
Red-tailed Hawk 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult)
Killdeer 7
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Dunlin 21
Laughing Gull 7
Bonaparte's Gull 1 (adult winter)
Ring-billed Gull 19
Herring Gull 328
Great Black-backed Gull 150
Mourning Dove 13
Downy Woodpecker 1
Tufted Titmouse 1
American Pipit 6
European Starling 305
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4 (Myrtle)
Chipping Sparrow 1
Field Sparrow 2
VESPER SPARROW 2 (arrival)
Savannah Sparrow 14
Song Sparrow 78
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 3
sparrow sp. 21
Dark-eyed Junco 5 (Slate-colored)
SNOW BUNTING 1 (male, arrival)
Red-winged Blackbird 18
blackbird sp. 65
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 6