Hart-Miller Island: 08/29/98
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:12:53 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, August 29, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Bob Dixon.
Observation: 0715-1655
AM: Sunny, 80 degrees F., SE 5K
EARLY PM: Mostly Sunny, 95 degrees F., SE 15K
LATE PM: Mostly Cloudy, 90 degrees F., NW 15K
NOTE: Dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat
Double-crested Cormorant 47
Great Blue Heron 7
Green-winged Teal 3
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 34
Osprey 12
Northern Harrier 8 (4 female, 4 juvenile)
Cooper's Hawk 1
American Kestrel 3 (1 male, 2 female)
Peregrine Falcon 2 (1 adult, 1 unknown)
Semipalmated Plover 2
Killdeer 25
Greater Yellowlegs 8
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Spotted Sandpiper 10
Semipalmated Sandpiper 112
Western Sandpiper 38
Least Sandpiper 79
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
peep sp. 10 (including 5 Semi/Western sp.)
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER *1 (FALL ARRIVAL)
Short-billed Dowitcher 10
shorebird sp. 2
Laughing Gull 42
Ring-billed Gull 245
Herring Gull 509
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 (first-summer)
Great Black-backed Gull 1071
Caspian Tern 94
Forster's Tern 2
Mourning Dove 28
Chimney Swift 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Eastern Kingbird 5
Purple Martin 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Bank Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 69
Fish Crow 1
crow sp. 8
Carolina Wren 2
Marsh Wren 1 (juvenile)
American Robin 1
Gray Catbird 5
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 237
White-eyed Vireo 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Song Sparrow 10
Bobolink 19
Red-winged Blackbird 9
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
American Goldfinch 10
BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 (yellow)
Cabbage White 14
Clouded Sulphur 10
Orange Sulphur 2
Cloudless Sulphur 26
Pearl Crescent 1
Variegated Fritillary 1
Eastern Comma 1
Red-spotted Purple 4
Common Buckeye 1
Monarch 5
Common Checkered Skipper 1
skipper sp. 6
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com