Hart-Miller Island: 07/18/98
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:54:37 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
July 18, 1998.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.
Observation: 0720-1645
AM: Partly Sunny, 70 degrees F., NW 20K - W 10K
PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F., 0 - N 5K - E 10K - SE 10K
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 12
Canada Goose 6
Mallard 68 (including 27 young)
Red-breasted Merganser 1 (male)
Osprey 22 (including 8 nestling)
Red-tailed Hawk 1 (adult)
Semipalmated Plover 1
Killdeer 56 (including 2 juvenile)
Lesser Yellowlegs 18 (adult)
Spotted Sandpiper 37 (including 13 juvenile)
Semipalmated Sandpiper 202 (adult)
Western Sandpiper 8 (adult)
*LEAST SANDPIPER *61 (60 adult, 1 JUVENILE ARRIVAL)
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *1 (adult, FALL ARRIVAL,
PRECEDES YELLOW BOOK ARRIVAL DATE)
Pectoral Sandpiper 1 (adult)
*DUNLIN *1 (JUVENILE ARRIVAL)
Short-billed Dowitcher 2 (adult hendersoni)
Laughing Gull 8 (6 adult summer, 1 2nd-summer)
*RING-BILLED GULL *983 (INCLUDING 1 JUVENILE ARRIVAL)
Herring Gull 271
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 (2nd-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull 417
Caspian Tern 139
Mourning Dove 5 (including 1 juvenile)
Willow Flycatcher 2
Great Creasted Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 5
Tree Swallow 5
Bank Swallow 11
Barn Swallow 135
Fish Crow 2
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 2
Marsh Wren 5
Gray Catbird 2
European Starling 60
Yellow Warbler 3
Common Yellowthroat 10
Song Sparrow 53
Swamp Sparrow 4
Red-winged Blackbird 93
American Goldfinch 3
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com