Hart-Miller Island: 05/30/98
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 31 May 1998 13:49:54 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Saturday, May 30, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Don Burggraf.
Observation: 0705-1700
AM: Hazy, 70 degrees F.
PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F.
Common Loon 8
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Great Blue Heron 48
Canada Goose 6 (2 adult, 4 young)
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 126 (66 male, 33 female, 27 young)
Red-breasted Merganser 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Osprey 14
Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult)
Black-bellied Plover 16
Semipalmated Plover 243
Killdeer 15
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 11
Willet 1 (Eastern, breeding plumage)
Spotted Sandpiper 41
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Red Knot 1
Sanderling 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 118
Least Sandpiper 117
*CURLEW SANDPIPER *1 (breeding plumage;
third island record: 10/19/85 - 1
05/17/92 - 1)
Dunlin 33
peep sp. 155
*STILT SANDPIPER *4 (first spring record for island)
Short-billed Dowitcher 16 (15 hendersoni adult, 1 1st summer)
Laughing Gull 4 (2 adult, 2 1st summer)
Ring-billed Gull 54
Herring Gull 480
*ICELAND GULL *1 (1st summer plumage;
third island record: 05/31/97 - 1
06/08/97 - 1)
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *2 (2 1st summer)
Great Black-backed Gull 182
Caspian Tern 78 (including 6 1st summer)
Mourning Dove 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Willow Flycatcher 8
Great Crested Flycatcher 5
Eastern Kingbird 5
Purple Martin 4 (male)
Tree Swallow 4
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Bank Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 21
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 4
crow sp. 3
Marsh Wren 13
Gray Catbird 5
European Starling 6 (3 adult, 3 nestlings)
Yellow Warbler 18
Magnolia Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 3
American Redstart 1 (male)
Common Yellowthroat 14
Song Sparrow 34
Swamp Sparrow 8
Red-winged Blackbird 80
Common Grackle 3 (Purple)
Orchard Oriole 1
House Finch 5
American Goldfinch 11
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com