[MDOsprey] Hart-Miller Island: 08/14/99
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:22:10 -0400
This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for August
14, 1999.
The observer was Gene Scarpulla.
Observation: 0725-1645
AM: Mostly Sunny, 70 degrees F., SW 15K
PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F., S 15K
Conditions very dry; minimal shorebird habitat
(*SPECIES OF INTEREST)
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Great Blue Heron 16
Canada Goose 29
Mallard 78 (includes 4 downy young)
*AMERICAN WIGEON *1
Osprey 17 (2 ad., 10 juv., 5 unkn.)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *7
Killdeer 18
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS *9
Spotted Sandpiper 6
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *5
*WESTERN SANDPIPER *25
Semipalmated/Western peep sp. 7
*LEAST SANDPIPER *33
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER *1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *2 (juvenile)
Laughing Gull 27
Ring-billed Gull 139
Herring Gull 108
Great Black-backed Gull 897
Caspian Tern 25
Mourning Dove 14
Eastern Kingbird 6
Fish Crow 2
Purple Martin 2
Tree Swallow 3
Bank Swallow 12
Barn Swallow 38
Gray Catbird 3 (includes 1 juvenile)
European Starling 3
Common Yellowthroat 5
Song Sparrow 45
Swamp Sparrow 5
Northern Cardinal 1 (male)
Indigo Bunting 3
Bobolink 2
Red-winged Blackbird 59
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 11
MAMMALS
Muskrat 2
BUTTERFLIES
blackish swallowtail sp. 3
Cabbage White 6
Orange Sulphur 13
Little Yellow 1
Gray Hairstreak 3
Monarch 11
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com