[MDOsprey] Hart-Miller Island: 05/22/99

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 23 May 1999 18:06:38 -0400 

This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for May 22,
1999. (Anne Arundel Bird Club Field Trip)

The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz, Don Burggraf, Phil Powers,
Kim Hudyma, Kathy Neugebauer, and Paul Fofonoff.

Observation: 0715-1700
             AM: Sunny, 55 degrees F., SE 2K
             PM: Mostly sunny, 85 degrees F., SE 5K

 Double-crested Cormorant        48
 Great Blue Heron                39
 Great Egret                     1
 Black-crowned Night-Heron       1 (adult)
 Canada Goose                    13
 Mallard                         104 (38 M, 27 F, 39 Y)
 Greater Scaup                   1 (male)
 Lesser Scaup                    1 (male)
 Osprey                          15 (13 adult, 2 nestling)
 Peregrine Falcon                2 (adult)
 Black-bellied Plover            7
 Semipalmated Plover             24
 Killdeer                        14
 Greater Yellowlegs              1
 Lesser Yellowlegs               1
*WILLET                         *1 (WESTERN)
 Spotted Sandpiper               31
 Whimbrel                        5
 Ruddy Turnstone                 9
 Semipalmated Sandpiper          506
 Least Sandpiper                 41
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER         *4
 Dunlin                          92
 peep sp.                        280
 Short-billed Dowitcher          7
 Laughing Gull                   3
 Ring-billed Gull                1
 Herring Gull                    446
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL       *1 (3rd-summer)
*GLAUCOUSx(HERRING?) GULL HYBRID*1 (2nd-summer)
    Slightly larger than a Herring Gull
    Very white plumage with some tan markings
    Silver gray mantle (as in typical Glaucous)
    Cocoa-colored primaries (paler than Herring)
        (Glaucous should be white)
    Cocoa-colored tail band (1" wide, 1/3 way up tail)
        (Glaucous should not have solid band)
    [There were differing opinions on this bird.]
 Great Black-backed Gull         155
 Caspian Tern                    78
*ROYAL TERN                     *5
*ARTIC TERN                     *1 (adult summer)
*BLACK SKIMMER                  *1
 Mourning Dove                   5
 Willow Flycatcher               3
 Great Crested Flycatcher        1
 Eastern Kingbird                8
 American Crow                   1
 Fish Crow                       8
 Purple Martin                   1
 Tree Swallow                    11 (nest with 4 eggs)
 Bank Swallow                    4
 Barn Swallow                    12
 Tufted Titmouse                 1
 Carolina Wren                   1
 House Wren                      1
 Marsh Wren                      6
 American Robin                  1
 Gray Catbird                    4
 Northern Mockingbird            2
 European Starling               3
 Red-eyed Vireo                  1
 Yellow Warbler                  17
 Blackpoll Warbler               1
 American Redstart               1
 Common Yellowthroat             11
 Song Sparrow                    28
 Swamp Sparrow                   4
 Indigo Bunting                  1
 Red-winged Blackbird            105
 Common Grackle                  5
 Orchard Oriole                  3
 House Finch                     4
 American Goldfinch              8

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                         4
 Red Fox                         1
 Raccoon                         (fresh tracks)

BUTTERFLIES
 Black Swallowtail               3
 Spicebush Swallowtail           1
 "black" swallowtail sp.         9
 Cabbage White                   5
 Clouded Sulphur                 2
 Orange Sulphur                  2
 American Lady                   2
 Viceroy                         1
 Southern Cloudywing             1
 dark skipper sp.                4

DRAGONFLIES
 Wandering Glider                1
 glider sp.                      4

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com