Hart-Miller Island: 05/01/99
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 02 May 1999 11:45:56 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for May 1,
1999.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Greg Futral.
Observation: 0720-1700
AM: Sunny, 45 degrees F., NE 20K
PM: Sunny, 65 degrees F., NE 15K
Double-crested Cormorant 20
Great Blue Heron 22
Snowy Egret 1
Turkey Vulture 2
Canada Goose 15
Mallard 48 (30 male, 18 female)
Lesser Scaup 1 (male)
Osprey 14
Northern Harrier 1 (immature)
American Coot 1
Killdeer 10
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Spotted Sandpiper 7
Least Sandpiper 22
Dunlin 2
*BLACK-HEADED GULL *1 (1st-winter; This is a new
species for the Island, raising the Island total to 270.)
Bonaparte's Gull 202
Ring-billed Gull 56
Herring Gull 301
Great Black-backed Gull 187
Caspian Tern 52
*ROYAL TERN *3
Mourning Dove 6
Chimney Swift 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 5
Tree Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 12
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 4
Marsh Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 3
Yellow Warbler 19 (1 observed nest building,
thus raising breeding status from "Probable" to "Confirmed")
Common Yellowthroat 13
Eastern Towhee 2
Song Sparrow 24
Swamp Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Red-winged Blackbird 68
Common Grackle 17
Brown-headed Cowbird 3 (male)
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 1
MAMMALS
Muskrat 3
BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White 3
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com