[MDOsprey] Hart-Miller Island: June 19, 1999
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:31:43 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for June
19, 1999.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Norm Saunders, and Mike Moffatt.
Observation: 0710-1645
AM: Sunny, 65 degrees F., N 5K
PM: Sunny, 80 degrees F., N 5K
Double-crested Cormorant 8
Great Blue Heron 48
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 (adult)
Canada Goose 30
American Black Duck 6
Mallard 222 (132 adult, 90 young)
Blue-winged Teal 1 (male)
Northern Pintail 1 (male)
Osprey 20 (15 adult, 5 nestling)
Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult)
Killdeer 30
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Spotted Sandpiper 19
Least Sandpiper 4
*WILSON"S PHALAROPE *1 (male, breeding plumage)
Laughing Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 16
Herring Gull 281
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (2nd-summer)
*GLAUCOUS GULL *1 (2nd-S to 3rd-W)
Great Black-backed Gull 660
Caspian Tern 23
Common Tern 5
Least Tern 6
Rock Dove 1
Mourning Dove 8
Chimney Swift 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Willow Flycatcher 3
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 3
White-eyed Vireo 2
American Crow 5
Fish Crow 4
Purple Martin 4
Tree Swallow 16
Bank Swallow 3
Barn Swallow 20
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 4
Marsh Wren 8
Gray Catbird 7
Northern Mockingbird 2
Cedar Waxwing 1
European Starling 5
Yellow Warbler 13
Common Yellowthroat 11
Song Sparrow 46
Swamp Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 2 (male)
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 112
Common Grackle 8
Brown-headed Cowbird 1 (male)
Orchard Oriole 2
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 6
MAMMALS
Muskrat 3
Raccoon fresh tracks
BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 (yellow)
Cabbage White 55
Clouded Sulphur 2
Orange Sulphur 9
Gray Hairstreak 1
Spring Azure 1
American Snout 2
American Lady 1
orange skipper sp. 5
MISCELLANEOUS
*HORSESH0E CRAB *1 (a female on the sandy beach in the
cove at the north end of old Miller "Island") [I would be interested in
any other known Upper Bay records for the Chesapeake.]
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com