[MDOsprey] Hart-Miller Island: 07/24/99
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:23:42 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for July
24, 1999.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.
Observation: 0710-1655
AM: Mostly cloudy, 80 degrees F., S 15K
PM: Partly cloudy, 95 degrees F., SW 5K
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Double-crested Cormorant 5
Great Blue Heron 32
Canada Goose 12
Mallard 128 (includes 8 downy young)
Osprey 22
American Kestrel 3
Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *9
Killdeer 11
*AMERICAN AVOCET *1 (male)
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS *2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS *70
Spotted Sandpiper 24 (includes 1 downy young)
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *110
*WESTERN SANDPIPER *6
*LEAST SANDPIPER *50
peep sp. 267
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER *20
Laughing Gull 3
Ring-billed Gull 101 (includes 1 juvenile)
Herring Gull 70
Great Black-backed Gull 1027 (includes 2 juvenile)
Caspian Tern 26
Common Tern 3
Mourning Dove 8
Willow Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 4
American Crow 1
Purple Martin 3
Barn Swallow 50
House Wren 1
Marsh Wren 11
Gray Catbird 1
European Starling 12
Yellow Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 16
Song Sparrow 62
Swamp Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 101
Brown-headed Cowbird 1 (juvenile)
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 3
MAMMALS
Muskrat 1
Raccoon fresh tracks
BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail 2 (male)
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4 (3 black female; 1 yellow)
blackish swallowtail sp. 5
Cabbage White 45
Orange Sulphur 14
Little Yellow 1
Gray Hairstreak 3
Monarch 10
Least Skipper 1
Broad-winged Skipper 2
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com