Hart-Miller Island: 11/07/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 08 Nov 1998 10:45:24 -0500 

This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, November 7, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Cornelia Pasche.

Observation: 0710-1215
             AM: Cloudy, 35 degrees F., W 25K
             PM: Sunny, 50 degrees F., W 25K
             Note: Windy conditions, few songbirds, no butterflies
 
 Common Loon                     2
 Great Blue Heron                3
 Canada Goose                    19 (flyover)
 American Black Duck             43
 Mallard                         68 (36 male, 32 female)
 Bufflehead                      10 (2 male, 8 female)
 Northern Harrier                3 (immature)
 Cooper's Hawk                   1 (adult)
 Killdeer                        2
 Laughing Gull                   12
 Ring-billed Gull                69
 Herring Gull                    103
 Great Black-backed Gull         34
 Mourning Dove                   3
 Northern Flicker                1 (Yellow-shafted)
 crow sp.                        1
 European Starling               300
 Song Sparrow                    7
 White-throated Sparrow          1
 Dark-eyed Junco                 7 (Slate-colored)
*SNOW BUNTING                   *32
 Red-winged Blackbird            35
 blackbird sp.                   200
 American Goldfinch              1

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                         (fresh tracks)
 Red Fox                         (fresh tracks)
 Raccoon                         (fresh tracks)

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com