Hart-Miller Island: 09/05/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 06 Sep 1998 11:54:54 -0400 

This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, September 5, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Matt Hafner.

Observation: 0710-1650
             AM: Sunny, 65 degrees F., NW 15K
             PM: Sunny, 85 degrees F., NW 15K
             
             NOTE: Dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat

 Double-crested Cormorant        35
 Great Blue Heron                8
 Black-crowned Night-Heron       1 (1 year old)
 American Black Duck             3
 Mallard                         16
 Northern Shoveler               2
 Osprey                          14
 Northern Harrier                5 (1 male, 1 female, 3 juvenile)
 American Kestrel                9 (3 male, 3 female, 3 unknown)
 Peregrine Falcon                2 (adult)
 Black-bellied Plover            1
 Semipalmated Plover             4
 Killdeer                        6
 Greater Yellowlegs              1
 Lesser Yellowlegs               5
 Solitary Sandpiper              1
 Spotted Sandpiper               6
 Sanderling                      1
 Semipalmated Sandpiper          20
 Western Sandpiper               2
 Least Sandpiper                 36
 peep sp.                        31 (including 4 Semi/Western sp.)
 Pectoral Sandpiper              3
 Stilt Sandpiper                 1
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper         1
 Short-billed Dowitcher          1 (juvenile)
 Laughing Gull                   10
 Ring-billed Gull                107
 Herring Gull                    596
 Great Black-backed Gull         697
 Caspian Tern                    113
*ROYAL TERN                     *2
 Mourning Dove                   8
 Chimney Swift                   8
 Ruby-throated Hummingbird       1
 Downy Woodpecker                1
 empidonax flycatcher sp.        2
 Eastern Kingbird                1
 Northern Rough-winged Swallow   1
 Bank Swallow                    13
 Cliff Swallow                   1
 Barn Swallow                    130
 crow sp.                        8
 Carolina Wren                   4
 Gray Catbird                    4
 Northern Mockingbird            1
 European Starling               19
 White-eyed Vireo                1
 Red-eyed Vireo                  1
*PALM WARBLER                   *3 (1 Yellow, 2 Western; FALL ARRIVAL)
*SAVANNAH SPARROW               *8 (FALL ARRIVAL)
 Song Sparrow                    5
 Bobolink                        4
 Red-winged Blackbird            9
 Baltimore Oriole                1
 American Goldfinch              9

BUTTERFLIES
 Cabbage White                   30
 Clouded Sulphur                 6
 Orange Sulphur                  9
 Cloudless Sulphur               34
 Pearl Crescent                  1
 Red-spotted Purple              2
 Monarch                         21
 skipper sp.                     35

CORRIGENDUM - 08/29/98
 White-rumped Sandpiper          2
 Rock Dove                       1

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com