Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:23:41 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 04/08/00 Comments: To: Dave Brinker , Donna Finnegan , Jim & Denise Potyraj , Jim Stasz , John Wilson , Voice of the Naturalist MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Observations at Hart-Miller Island April 8, 2000 0720-1500 AM: sunny, 65 degrees, winds S 35K PM: sunny, 70 degrees, winds S 35K Observer: Gene Scarpulla *SPECIES OF NOTE Common Loon 2 (breeding plumage) Double-crested Cormorant 62 Great Blue Heron 9 Canada Goose 15 *MUTE SWAN *21 American Black Duck 1 (female) Mallard 64 (37 male, 27 female) Blue-winged Teal 2 (1 male, 1 female) Northern Shoveler 2 (male) Green-winged Teal 120 Greater Scaup 1 (male) Bufflehead 7 (1 male, 6 female) Red-breasted Merganser 3 (1 male, 2 female) Osprey 14 Bald Eagle 1 (adult) Northern Harrier 2 (immature) American Coot 1 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *1 Killdeer 12 *DUNLIN *21 Bonaparte=92s Gull 127 Ring-billed Gull 16 Herring Gull 256 Great Black-backed Gull 48 Caspian Tern 32 Mourning Dove 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Fish Crow 3 crow sp. 1 Tree Swallow 19 Barn Swallow 4 Carolina Wren 1 American Robin 2 European Starling 4 Eastern Towhee 2 Song Sparrow 14 Red-winged Blackbird 91 Common Grackle 6 (Purple) Brown-headed Cowbird 9 (6 male, 3 female) House Finch 6 American Goldfinch 3 BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 95 Orange Sulphur 1 dark skipper sp. 1 Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland gscarp@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================