Hart-Miller Island: 05/08/99
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 10 May 1999 20:18:35 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for May 8,
1999.(North American Migration Count)
The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Ralph Cullison, and Greg Futral.
Observation: 0740-1700
AM: Foggy, 60 degrees F., SE 10K
PM: Cloudy, 75 degrees F., N 15K
Double-crested Cormorant 94
Great Blue Heron 33
*GREAT EGRET *6
*SNOWY EGRET *4
*CATTLE EGRET *3
Green Heron 1
Canada Goose 9
Mallard 28 (18 male, 10 female)
Lesser Scaup 1 (male)
Ruddy Duck 1 (male)
Osprey 11
Northern Harrier 3 (1 female, 2 immature)
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
American Kestrel 1
Black-bellied Plover 2
Semipalmated Plover 12
Killdeer 14
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 13
*WILLET *1 (EASTERN)
Spotted Sandpiper 27
Semipalmated Sandpiper 13
Least Sandpiper 93
Dunlin 9
peep sp. 20
Bonaparte's Gull 8
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 376
Great Black-backed Gull 180
Caspian Tern 290
*ROYAL TERN *5
Common Tern 4
Least Tern 1
Mourning Dove 7
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
*COMMON NIGHTHAWK *1
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 13
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 8
Tree Swallow 65
Barn Swallow 23
*BLUE JAY *186
Carolina Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 4
Marsh Wren 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Eastern Bluebird 1
Veery 1
Swainson's Thrush 2
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 16
Northern Mockingbird 4
*AMERICAN PIPIT 3
Cedar Waxwing 10
European Starling 4
White-eyed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 28
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 (male)
Yellow-rumped Warbler 35 (Myrtle)
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Black and White Warbler 4
American Redstart 6
Common Yellowthroat 37
*WILSON'S WARBLER *1 (Male)
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 7
Field Sparrow 3
*SAVANNAH SPARROW *41
Song Sparrow 71
Swamp Sparrow 6
White-throated Sparrow 17
White-crowned Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 2
Blue Grosbeak 3 (2 male, 1 female)
Bobolink 5
Red-winged Blackbird 119
Common Grackle 15
Brown-headed Cowbird 33
Orchard Oriole 1 (male)
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 4
MAMMALS
Raccoon 1
BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
Cabbage White 2
Clouded Sulphur 4
Orange Sulphur 2
Painted Lady 2
butterfly sp. 3
DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner 8
Black-mantled Glider 3
large rust-colored body sp. 5
small dragonfly sp. 5
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com