Re: Hart-Miller Island: 09/19/98 -Reply
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:25:58 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, September 19, 1998. [Fall Migration Count]
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Ralph Cullison.
Observation: 0715-1700
AM: Cloudy, 65 degrees F., NE 15K
PM: Cloudy, 75 degrees F., N 5K
NOTE: Dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat
Double-crested Cormorant 87
Great Blue Heron 11
Canada Goose 12
Green-winged Teal 2
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 88
Blue-winged Teal 1
Osprey 2
Northern Harrier 3 (juvenile)
American Kestrel 1 (female)
Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult)
Virginia Rail 1
Black-bellied Plover 13
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *8
Semipalmated Plover 1
Killdeer 14
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 16
Sanderling 5
Semipalmated Sandpiper 17
Least Sandpiper 12
Pectoral Sandpiper 3
*DUNLIN *1
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER *1
Laughing Gull 3
Ring-billed Gull 71
Herring Gull 369
Great Black-backed Gull 895
Caspian Tern 22
Mourning Dove 19
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
swallow sp. 4
American Crow 5
Carolina Wren 4
Marsh Wren 1
*RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET *1 (FALL ARRIVAL)
Gray Catbird 8
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 154
White-eyed Vireo 1
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 3
*PALM WARBLER *52 (1 Yellow, 51 Western)
Common Yellowthroat 30
Savannah Sparrow 7
Song Sparrow 31
Swamp Sparrow 3
Bobolink 7
Red-winged Blackbird 30
American Goldfinch 14
BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail 1
Cabbage White 63
Clouded Sulphur 10
Orange Sulphur 13
Cloudless Sulphur 28
Gray Hairstreak 25
Eastern Tailed Blue 1
Variegated Fritillary 5
American Lady 1
Monarch 9
dark skipper sp. 1
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com