Hart-Miller Island: 10/31/98
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 22:05:07 -0500
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, October 31, 1998.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.
Observation: 0710-1500
AM: Sunny, 35 degrees F., NW 15K
PM: Sunny, 65 degrees F., N 20K
Common Loon 2
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 6
Canada Goose 28 (flyover)
Green-winged Teal 1 (female)
American Black Duck 12
Mallard 11 (8 male, 3 female)
Bufflehead 5 (2 male, 3 female)
*RUDDY DUCK *6 (male, ARRIVAL)
Northern Harrier 6 (1 male, 5 immature)
Cooper's Hawk 1 (immature)
American Kestrel 3 (2 male, 1 female)
Merlin 1 (female)
Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult)
Killdeer 4
Laughing Gull 5
Ring-billed Gull 11
Herring Gull 165
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *2 (1 third-winter, 1 adult winter)
Great Black-backed Gull 65
Mourning Dove 2
Northern Flicker 1 (Yellow-shafted)
American Crow 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
American Robin 1
American Pipit 14
European Starling 2000
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4 (Myrtle)
Palm Warbler 1 (Yellow)
Northern Cardinal 1 (male)
Field Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 35
Swamp Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco 36 (Slate-colored)
*SNOW BUNTING *2 (ARRIVAL)
Red-winged Blackbird 53
Eastern Meadowlark 2
blackbird sp. 112
American Goldfinch 7
MAMMALS
small rodent sp. 2 (caught by American Kestrels)
medium rodent sp. 1 (caught by Northern Harrier)
Muskrat (fresh tracks)
Red Fox (fresh tracks)
Raccoon (fresh tracks)
BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White 99
Clouded Sulphur 2
Orange Sulphur 71
Variegated Fritillary 7
Common Buckeye 8
Monarch 4
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com