Hart-Miller Island: 07/25/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 20:25:47 -0400 

This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for 
Saturday July 25, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Bob Dixon, Jim Stasz, and Ryan Lesh.

Observation: 0710-1430
             AM: Partly cloudy, 65 degrees F., NE 10K
             PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F., NE 10K

 Double-crested Cormorant        27
 Great Blue Heron                22 (including 1 juvenile)
 Green-winged Teal               1
 American Black Duck             2
 Mallard                         54 (including 11 young)
*NORTHERN PINTAIL               *1 (female)
 Red-breasted Merganser          1 (male)
 Osprey                          20 (including 5 nestling)
 Northern Harrier                2 (1 male, 1 female or immature)
 American Kestrel                2 (1 male, 1 female)
 Semipalmated Plover             8
 Killdeer                        18
 Greater Yellowlegs              1 (adult)
 Lesser Yellowlegs               10 (adult)
*WILLET                         *1 (Eastern, juvenile, FALL ARRIVAL)
 Spotted Sandpiper               29
 Semipalmated Sandpiper          68 (adult)
 Least Sandpiper                 31 (30 adult, 1 juvenile)
 peep sp.                        19
 Pectoral Sandpiper              2 (adult)
*CURLEW SANDPIPER               *1 (BREEDING PLUMAGE)
*STILT SANDPIPER                *4 (adult, FALL ARRIVAL)
 Short-billed Dowitcher          6 (adult)
 Laughing Gull                   11
 Ring-billed Gull                840 (including 2 juvenile)
 Herring Gull                    157
 Great Black-backed Gull         445
 Caspian Tern                    135
 Common Tern                     1 (fly by)
 Mourning Dove                   5
 Chimney Swift                   1
 Downy Woodpecker                1
 Willow Flycatcher               2
 Great Crested Flycatcher        2
 Eastern Kingbird                4
 Tree Swallow                    3
 Bank Swallow                    80
 Barn Swallow                    116
 American Crow                   2
 crow sp.                        4
 Carolina Wren                   1
 House Wren                      1
 Marsh Wren                      4
 Gray Catbird                    3
 Northern Mockingbird            1
 European Starling               72
 Yellow Warbler                  3
 Common Yellowthroat             4
 Blue Grosbeak                   2
 Song Sparrow                    35 (including 1 juvenile being fed)
 Swamp Sparrow                   5
 Red-winged Blackbird            95
 House Finch                     2
 American Goldfinch              6

BUTTERFLIES
 Spicebush Swallowtail
 Cabbage White
 Orange Sulphur
 cloudywing sp.
 Broad-winged Skipper

DRAGONFLIES
 Green Darner
 Wandering Glider
 Spot-winged Glider
 Seaside Dragonlet

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com