Hart-Miller Island: 11/09/97
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 22:00:19 -0500
This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Sunday, November 9, 1997.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.
Observation: 0715-1550
drizzle/light showers, 45-55 degrees F., Winds N 15K
Common Loon 8
Horned Grebe 2 (arrival)
Double-crested Cormorant 11
Great Blue Heron 6
American Black Duck 17
Mallard 249
Lesser Scaup 5 (1 male, 4 female)
Bufflehead 10 (2 adult male, 1 first winter male,
7 female)
Ruddy Duck 8 (6 male, 2 female)
Northern Harrier 8 (2 male, 4 female, 2 juvenile)
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 (immature)
Cooper's Hawk 1 (immature)
Red-tailed Hawk 1 (adult)
Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult)
Killdeer 1
Sanderling 4
Dunlin 12
Laughing Gull 21
Ring-billed Gull 36
Herring Gull 645
Great Black-backed Gull 107
Mourning Dove 79
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 1 (Yellow-shafted)
American Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 4
Carolina Wren 2
Winter Wren 1
American Pipit 7
European Starling 120
Yellow-rumped Warbler 6 (Myrtle)
Northern Cardinal 2
Eastern Towhee 4
Chipping Sparrow 2
Field Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 4
Fox Sparrow 1 (arrival)
Song Sparrow 55
Swamp Sparrow 7
White-throated Sparrow 17
Dark-eyed Junco 111 (Slate-colored)
Snow Bunting 20
Red-winged Blackbird 33
Eastern Meadowlark 1
American Goldfinch 28