Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 08:09:02 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 05/06/00 Comments: To: Dave Brinker , Donna Finnegan , Jim & Denise Potyraj , Jim Stasz , John Wilson , Voice of the Naturalist , Steve Kopecky MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island May 6, 2000 0715-1425 AM: sunny, 70 degrees, winds N 2K PM: sunny, 85 degrees, winds SE 5K Observer: Gene Scarpulla *SPECIES OF NOTE Horned Grebe 1 (breeding plumage) Double-crested Cormorant 33 Great Blue Heron 34 *GREAT EGRET *1 Green Heron 1 *GLOSSY IBIS *16 Turkey Vulture 7 Canada Goose 16 (2 on nest) Mute Swan 2 Gadwall 5 (3 male, 2 female) American Black Duck 4 Mallard 88 (54 male, 34 female) Blue-winged Teal 1 (male) Osprey 8 (4 on nest) Northern Harrier 2 (immature) *MERLIN *1 Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *1 Killdeer 21 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *1 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *5 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *3 *WILLET *3 (EASTERN) Spotted Sandpiper 16 *LEAST SANDPIPER *15 *DUNLIN *33 Laughing Gull 3 Ring-billed Gull 33 Herring Gull 580 Great Black-backed Gull 141 Caspian Tern 222 *ROYAL TERN *4 Mourning Dove 4 Chimney Swift 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 7 *SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER ***1 (ADULT MALE)*** (SPECIES NO. 273 FOR HART-MILLER ISLAND) White-eyed Vireo 3 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 59 American Crow 2 Fish Crow 3 crow sp. 4 Tree Swallow 37 (some at nests) Bank Swallow 3 Barn Swallow 12 House Wren 4 Marsh Wren 6 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 6 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 2 Yellow Warbler 10 Common Yellowthroat 14 Eastern Towhee 1 Savannah Sparrow 8 Song Sparrow 14 Swamp Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 1 (male) Red-winged Blackbird 135 Common Grackle 5 (Purple) Brown-headed Cowbird 7 (male) Baltimore Oriole 1 (male) House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 19 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks REPTILES Spotted Turtle 3 BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 3 (male) Cabbage White 5 Clouded Sulphur 13 Gray Hairstreak 1 Mourning Cloak 1 American Lady 1 Red Admiral 4 Monarch 1 dark skipper sp. 3 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 ========================================================================= ===========================================================================