Hart-Miller Island: 09/12/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:35:45 -0400 

This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, September 12, 1998.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.

Observation: 0710-1655
             AM: Partly cloudy, 70 degrees F., calm
             Noon: Sunny, 80 degrees F., SW 15K
             PM: Sunny, 95 degrees F., W 15K
             
             NOTE: Dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat

 Double-crested Cormorant        62
 Great Blue Heron                4
 American Black Duck             2
 Mallard                         31
 Blue-winged Teal                1
 Northern Shoveler               2
 Osprey                          7
 Northern Harrier                4 (juvenile)
 Cooper's Hawk                   1
 Peregrine Falcon                2 (adult)
 Black-bellied Plover            7
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER         *21 (FALL ARRIVAL)
 Semipalmated Plover             8
 Killdeer                        24
 Greater Yellowlegs              2
 Lesser Yellowlegs               4
 Sanderling                      4
 Semipalmated Sandpiper          19
 Least Sandpiper                 22
 Pectoral Sandpiper              2
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER        *2
 shorebird sp.                   2
 Laughing Gull                   13
 Ring-billed Gull                68
 Herring Gull                    418
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL       *1 (adult summer)
 Great Black-backed Gull         531
 Caspian Tern                    37
 Mourning Dove                   37
 Chimney Swift                   7
 Ruby-throated Hummingbird       9
 Belted Kingfisher               1 (female)
 Downy Woodpecker                1
 Northern Flicker                1
 Eastern Wood-Pewee              1
 empidonax flycatcher sp.        2
 Eastern Kingbird                1
 Northern Rough-winged Swallow   11
 Bank Swallow                    3
 Barn Swallow                    3
 American Crow                   8
 Carolina Wren                   1
 Gray Catbird                    5
 European Starling               30
 White-eyed Vireo                1
 Palm Warbler                    15 (1 Yellow, 14 Western)
 Common Yellowthroat             6
 Northern Cardinal               1
 Eastern Towhee                  1
 Savannah Sparrow                3
 Song Sparrow                    3
 Bobolink                        38
 Red-winged Blackbird            21
 American Goldfinch              4

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                         1

REPTILES
 Painted Turtle                  1

BUTTERFLIES
 Black Swallowtail               2 (1 male, 1 female)
 Cabbage White                   60
 Clouded Sulphur                 26
 Orange Sulphur                  19
 Cloudless Sulphur               73
 Little Yellow                   1
 Gray Hairstreak                 7
 American Snout                  2
 Variegated Fritillary           18
 Pearl Crescent                  4
 American Lady                   2
 Monarch                         388
 skipper sp.                     19

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com