Hart-Miller Island: 10/03/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 05 Oct 1998 07:09:06 -0400 

This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, October 3, 1998. (Audubon Naturalist Society field trip)
The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Hugh Mahanes, Sandy Hazel,Jan 
Chambers, Cornelia Pasche, Mark Eanes, Laurie Byrne.

Observation: 0715-1650
             AM: Cloudy, 50 degrees F., N 10K
             PM: Cloudy, 70 degrees F., N 10K
             
             NOTE: Dry conditions, minimal shorebird habitat

 Double-crested Cormorant        19
 Great Blue Heron                8
 Canada Goose                    224 (flyover)
*"SMALL RACE" CANADA GOOSE      *1 (flyover)
 Green-winged Teal               2
 American Black Duck             4
 Mallard                         122
*SURF SCOTER                    *5 (arrival)
 Northern Harrier                2 (immature)
 American Kestrel                2 (1 male, 1 female)
*MERLIN                         *1 (female, arrival)
 Peregrine Falcon                1 (adult)
 Black-bellied Plover            5
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER         *8
 Killdeer                        11
 Lesser Yellowlegs               2
 Spotted Sandpiper               2
 Least Sandpiper                 2
 "Semipalmated/Western" peep sp. 1
 Laughing Gull                   1
 Ring-billed Gull                31
 Herring Gull                    245
 Great Black-backed Gull         509
 Caspian Tern                    3
 Rock Dove                       1
 Mourning Dove                   2
 Chimney Swift                   5
 Northern Flicker                1
 Eastern Phoebe                  2
 Tree Swallow                    30
 crow sp.                        1
 Carolina Wren                   1
 Ruby-crowned Kinglet            2
 American Robin                  1
 Gray Catbird                    4
*AMERICAN PIPIT                 *2 (arrival)
 European Starling               269
 Palm Warbler                    2 (Western)
 Common Yellowthroat             2
 Field Sparrow                   1
 Savannah Sparrow                6
 Song Sparrow                    26
 Swamp Sparrow                   1
 sparrow sp.                     9
 Red-winged Blackbird            17
 Brown-headed Cowbird            24

MAMMALS
 small rodent sp.                1
 Muskrat                         1
 Raccoon                         (fresh tracks)

BUTTERFLIES
 Cabbage White                   1
 Clouded Sulphur                 1
 Orange Sulphur                  20
 Cloudless Sulphur               1
 Gray Hairstreak                 1
 Variegated Fritillary           7
 Pearl Crescent                  3
 Monarch                         8
 Common Checkered Skipper        1
 skipper sp.                     7

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com