Observations at Hart-Miller Island
November 8, 2008
0710 - 1510
Weather: AM: cloudy, 60 degrees, SW 5 K; PM: sunny, 66 degrees, SSE 5 K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 128
Mute Swan - 7
Wood Duck - 1
Gadwall - 228
*EURASIAN WIGEON - 1 (male)
American Wigeon - 25
American Black Duck - 18
Mallard - 128
Northern Shoveler - 46
Northern Pintail - 69
Green-winged Teal - 114
Ring-necked Duck - 2
Lesser Scaup - 147
Bufflehead - 3
Ruddy Duck - 326
unidentified duck species - 50
Common Loon - 2
Pied-billed Grebe - 10
Double-crested Cormorant - 109
Great Blue Heron - 12
*AMERICAN BITTERN - 2
Northern Harrier - 3 (immature)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
American Coot - 420
*KILLDEER - 4
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 1
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 8
*DUNLIN - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 17
Herring Gull - 84
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (1st-winter)
Great Black-backed Gull - 196
Caspian Tern - 2
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 11
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Carolina Wren - 4
European Starling - 175
*AMERICAN PIPIT - 2
Cedar Waxwing - 67
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 52
Swamp Sparrow - 2
White-throated Sparrow - 9
Dark-eyed Junco - 9 (Slate-colored)
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 28
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 250

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
Common Raccoon - fresh tracks
White-tailed Deer - fresh tracks

AMPHIBIANS
Northern Spring Peeper - 3

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 10
Clouded Sulphur -1
Orange Sulphur - 8
Painted Lady - 1
Common Buckeye - 3
Monarch - 2

MOTHS
Yellow-colored Scape Moth - 4

MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS
Seaside Grasshopper - 1
Fall Field Cricket - 3 (calling)
Large Milkweed Bug - 9
Multi-colored Asian Lady Beetle - 1
Spotted Cucumber Beetle - 5


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland