Hart-Miller Island: 06/06/98
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 07 Jun 1998 20:31:03 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Saturday, June 6, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Lisa Franke.
Observation: 0710-1650
AM: Cloudy, 50 degrees F., NW 15K
PM: Sunny, 75 degrees F., W 20K
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 37
Canada Goose 12 (4 adult, 8 young)
American Black Duck 2 (1 male, 1 female)
Mallard 169 (64 male, 45 female, 60 young)
Osprey 12
Peregrine Falcon 1 (immature)
Semipalmated Plover 59
Killdeer 21
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Spotted Sandpiper 20
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Red Knot 6
Sanderling 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 193
*WESTERN SANDPIPER *1 (breeding plumage)
Least Sandpiper 11
White-rumped Sandpiper 5
*CURLEW SANDPIPER *1 (breeding plumage)
Dunlin 36 (including 1 non-breeding plumage)
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE *2 (male, breeding plumage)
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE *3 (2 male, 1 female, breeding plumage)
Ring-billed Gull 140
Herring Gull 452
*ICELAND GULL *1 (1st-summer plumage)
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (1st-summer plumage)
Great Black-backed Gull 195
Caspian Tern 91 (including 5 1st-summer plumage)
Common Tern 1
Least Tern 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Willow Flycatcher 6
Eastern Kingbird 2
Purple Martin 1 (female)
Tree Swallow 6
Bank Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 78
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 4
crow sp. 5
House Wren 5
Marsh Wren 17
European Starling 4
Yellow Warbler 16
Common Yellowthroat 11
Northern Cardinal 3
Eastern Towhee 1
Savannah Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 30
Swamp Sparrow 5
Red-winged Blackbird 68
Common Grackle 8 (Purple)
House Finch 7
American Goldfinch 7
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com