Hart-Miller Island: 04/10/99

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:12:36 -0400 

This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for April
10, 1999.

The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Barry Cooper, Elliot Kirschbaum,
Nancy Kirschbaum, and Greg Miller.

NOTE: Greg Miller's photos taken today are viewable on his website:
            http://www.erols.com/gregorym

Observation: 0740-1710
             AM: Mostly Sunny, 50 degrees F., N 20K
             PM: Sunny, 60 degrees F., N 5K

 Common Loon                     3
 Horned Grebe                    3
 Double-crested Cormorant        66
 Great Blue Heron                6
 Canada Goose                    10
 Mute Swan                       2 (adult)
 Gadwall                         4 (2 male, 2 female)
 American Black Duck             2
 Mallard                         62 (35 male, 27 female)
 Northern Pintail                1 (female)
 Green-winged Teal               2 (1 male, 1 female)
 Greater Scaup                   10 (5 male, 5 female)
 Lesser Scaup                    9 (6 male, 3 female)
 scaup sp.                       50
 Bufflehead                      23 (6 male, 17 female)
 Red-breasted Merganser          1
 Osprey                          16
 Bald Eagle                      2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
 Northern Harrier                2 (1 female, 1 immature)
 Cooper's Hawk                   1
 American Kestrel                8 (1 male, 5 female, 2 ?)
 Peregrine Falcon                1 (adult)
 Killdeer                        8
 Greater Yellowlegs              5
 Dunlin                          6
*LITTLE GULL                    *2 (1 1st-winter,
                                    1 adult winter)
 Bonaparte's Gull                550
 Ring-billed Gull                15
 Herring Gull                    224
*GLAUCOUS GULL                  *1 (1st or 2nd-winter)
                                    Previous Records:
                                      04/22/84        2
                                      04/29/84        1
                                      05/20/84        1
                                      05/25/86        1
                                      07/21-08/18/91  1
 Great Black-backed Gull         110
 Caspian Tern                    38
 Rock Dove                       2
 Mourning Dove                   5
*SHORT-EARED OWL                *1
 Chimney Swift                   1
 Red-bellied Woodpecker          1
 Downy Woodpecker                1
 American Crow                   1
 Fish Crow                       6
 crow sp.                        5
 Horned Lark                     1
 Tree Swallow                    31
 Northern Rough-winged Swallow   1
 Bank Swallow                    2
 Barn Swallow                    3
 swallow sp.                     13
 Tufted Titmouse                 1
 Carolina Wren                   3
 European Starling               4
 Eastern Towhee                  1
 Song Sparrow                    33
 Swamp Sparrow                   2
 White-throated Sparrow          3
 White-crowned Sparrow           1
 Red-winged Blackbird            83
 Common Grackle                  16
 Brown-headed Cowbird            9
 American Goldfinch              8

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                         2
 Raccoon                         (fresh tracks)

AMPHIBIANS
 Rana frog sp.                   3

BUTTERFLIES
 Cabbage White                   8
 Clouded Sulphur                 22
 Orange Sulphur                  1
 Gray Hairstreak                 1
 medium orange sp.               2 (Any suggestions?)
 small blue sp.                  2 (Any suggestions?)
 small black sp.                 1 (Any suggestions?)

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com