Hart-Miller Island: 02/01/98
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 01 Feb 1998 22:02:36 -0500
This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Sunday, February 1, 1998.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.
Observation: 0725-1700
Sunny, 25-45 degrees F.
Canada Goose 2
American Black Duck 97
Mallard 358
Northern Pintail 7
Gadwall 18
American Wigeon 2
Redhead 1 (male)
Greater Scaup 10,000
Lesser Scaup 1000
Common Goldeneye 69
Bufflehead 36
Common Merganser 10
Red-breasted Merganser 1 (female)
Northern Harrier 3 (immature)
Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) {twice observered Peregrines
carrying captured male Red-winged
Blackbirds from Hart-Miller Island to
the Craighill Upper Range Light}
Bonaparte's Gull 22
Ring-billed Gull 147
Herring Gull 512
Great Black-backed Gull 48
Rock Dove 1
Mourning Dove 4
Carolina Chickadee 1
Carolina Wren 1
European Starling 35
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 (Myrtle)
Northern Cardinal 1 (male)
Eastern Towhee 1
IPSWICH SPARROW 1
Song Sparrow 86
White-throated Sparrow 7
Dark-eyed Junco 12 (Slate-colored)
Snow Bunting 88
Red-winged Blackbird 14 (territorial males singing from high
perches {see Peregrine note above})
American Goldfinch 37
________________________________________________________________________ADDITIONAL NOTE: Along the Black Marsh shoreline of Back River, there
was a raft of approximately 100,000 scaup sp.