Hart-Miller Island: 10/18/98

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This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Sunday, October 18, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla, George Jett, and Marty LeGrand (Bay 
Country Magazine).

Observation: 0715-1500
             AM: Sunny, 50 degrees F., SW 15K
             PM: Sunny, 75 degrees F., SE 20K
             
 Double-crested Cormorant        30
 Great Blue Heron                5
 Canada Goose                    87 (flyover)
 Green-winged Teal               1
 American Black Duck             2
 Mallard                         11 (6 male, 5 female)
 Northern Harrier                4 (immature)
 Black-bellied Plover            2
 Killdeer                        13
 Greater Yellowlegs              1
 Lesser Yellowlegs               1
 Least Sandpiper                 5
 Laughing Gull                   26
 Ring-billed Gull                27
 Herring Gull                    384
 Great Black-backed Gull         367
 Mourning Dove                   2
 Downy Woodpecker                1
 Northern Flicker                3 (Yellow-shafted)
 crow sp.                        1
 Ruby-crowned Kinglet            24
 American Robin                  11
 Northern Mockingbird            1
 European Starling               585
 Yellow-rumped Warbler           4 (Myrtle)
*PALM WARBLER                  *71 (YELLOW)
 Common Yellowthroat             2
 Field Sparrow                   2
 Savannah Sparrow                73
 Song Sparrow                    43
 Swamp Sparrow                   6
 White-throated Sparrow          7
 White-crowned Sparrow           7 (1 adult, 6 immature)
 Dark-eyed Junco                 2 (Slate-colored)
 Red-winged Blackbird            21
 Eastern Meadowlark              1
 Brown-headed Cowbird            1
 House Finch                     4

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                         (fresh tracks)
 Raccoon                         (fresh tracks)

BUTTERFLIES
 Cabbage White                   63
 Clouded Sulphur                 3
 Orange Sulphur                  3
 Cloudless Sulphur               3
 Variegated Fritillary           4
 Pearl Crescent                  1
 Red Admiral                     4
 Common Buckeye                  1
 Monarch                         1
 skipper sp.                     1

DRAGONFLIES
 Black-mantled Glider            3

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com

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