Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 27, 2005
0715 - 1650
Weather: AM: mostly cloudy, 75 degrees,  WSW 5K; PM: cloudy, 75 degrees, 
WSW 5K
[two waterspouts around 10:15 a.m.]
Observers: Danny Bystrak, Carol McCollough, Jeff Shenot, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 49
Mute Swan - 14 (including 7 young)
Wood Duck - 34
American Wigeon - 1 (male)
American Black Duck - 7
American Black Duck/Mallard hybrid - 2
Mallard - 90
Blue-winged Teal - 7
Northern Shoveler - 37
Green-winged Teal - 260
Ruddy Duck - 7
*PIED-BILLED GREBE - 55
Double-crested Cormorant - 64
*LEAST BITTERN - 2
Great Blue Heron - 10
Great Egret - 12
Snowy Egret - 3
Cattle Egret - 1
Osprey - 5
Bald Eagle - 1 (subadult)
Northern Harrier - 3 (immature)
*SORA -1 (flushed)
*AMERICAN COOT - 23 (16 adult, 7 young) [4 family groups]
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 1 (breeding plumage)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 45
Killdeer - 6
*AMERICAN AVOCET - 54
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 139
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 2
*WHIMBREL - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 902
*WESTERN SANDPIPER - 37
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 82
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 3
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 2
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 6
*DUNLIN - 1
*STILT SANDPIPER - 17
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 33
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 70 (2 adult, 68 juvenile)
*WILSON'S SNIPE - 2
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 1 (winter plumage)
Laughing Gull - 55
Ring-billed Gull - 130
Herring Gull - 155
Great Black-backed Gull - 1210
Caspian Tern - 530
Mourning Dove - 72
Chimney Swift - 6
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5
empid flycatcher sp. - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 4
Blue Jay - 1
Purple Martin - 20
Tree Swallow - 101
Bank Swallow - 3
Barn Swallow - 57
Carolina Wren - 5
Marsh Wren - 4
American Robin - 2
Gray Catbird - 6
European Starling - 250
Cedar Waxwing - 2
Yellow Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 12
Song Sparrow - 32
Swamp Sparrow - 9
Northern Cardinal - 6
Blue Grosbeak - 11
*BOBOLINK - 83
Red-winged Blackbird - 134
Common Grackle - 3 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 132
Orchard Oriole - 2
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 16

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
Raccoon - 3

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 8
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
dark swallowtail sp. - 3
Checkered White - 3
Cabbage White - 6
Clouded Sulphur - 4
Clouded/Orange Sulphur -  (female white form)
Orange Sulphur - 190
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 21
Eastern Tailed Blue - 44
Variegated Fritillary - 4
Pearl Crescent - 78
Painted Lady - 5
lady sp. - 2
Buckeye - 3
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Viceroy - 7
Monarch - 51
Silver-spotted Skipper - 6
Common Sootywing - 1
Least Skipper - 3

MOTHS
Chickweed Geometer - numerous
Isabella Tiger - 1 (Woolly Bear)
Salt Marsh - 5 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
Virginian Tiger - 7 (1 adult, 6 Yellow Bear)
Baltimore Bomolocha - a few
Clover Looper - a few
*OLIVE-SHADED BIRD-DROPPING - (numerous) [new for island]

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Eastern Pondhawk - 10
Needham's Skimmer - 5
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 2
Blue Dasher - 8
Black Saddlebags - 4

DAMSELFLIES
bluet sp. - 2
Rambur's Forktail - 2


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland