Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:06:47 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 05/13/00 Comments: To: Dave Brinker , Donna Finnegan , Jim & Denise Potyraj , Jim Stasz , John Wilson , Steve Kopecky , Voice of the Naturalist MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island May 13, 2000 0710-1830 AM: sunny, 70 degrees, winds NE 5K PM: partly sunny, 85 degrees, winds E 5K Observers: Gene Scarpulla and Ralph Cullison *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 24 Great Blue Heron 37 *TRICOLORED HERON *1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 (adult) *GLOSSY IBIS *8 Canada Goose 29 (25 ad, 4 downy young)) Gadwall 3 (2 male, 1 female) American Black Duck 8 Mallard 122 (70 M, 41 F, 11 dy) Blue-winged Teal 3 (2 male, 1 female) Lesser Scaup 2 (male) Red-breasted Merganser 1 (female) Ruddy Duck 1 (female) Osprey 12 American Kestrel 1 (male) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *132 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *39 Killdeer 16 *AMERICAN AVOCET *3 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *96 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *1 *WILLET *2 (EASTERN) Spotted Sandpiper 19 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *2 *SANDERLING *1 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *785 *LEAST SANDPIPER *133 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *3 *DUNLIN *245 *STILT SANDPIPER *4 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *1 (MALE) *RED-NECKED PHALAROPE *1 (FEMALE) Ring-billed Gull 269 Herring Gull 1985 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (2ND-SUMMER) Great Black-backed Gull 189 Caspian Tern 228 *ROYAL TERN *2 Common Tern 2 Forster's Tern 2 Mourning Dove 4 Chimney Swift 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Willow Flycatcher 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 Eastern Kingbird 11 White-eyed Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 7 Blue Jay 7 American Crow 3 Fish Crow 5 Purple Martin 1 (male) Tree Swallow 19 Bank Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 10 Carolina Wren 4 House Wren 7 Marsh Wren 17 Veery 1 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 3 Gray Catbird 26 Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 2 European Starling 7 Yellow Warbler 39 Magnolia Warbler 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler 6 American Redstart 5 Common Yellowthroat 22 Canada Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 3 Song Sparrow 22 Swamp Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 141 Common Grackle 9 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 (male) Orchard Oriole 1 (male) House Finch 4 American Goldfinch 6 MAMMALS Muskrat 2 REPTILES Painted Turtle 1 BUTTERFLIES dark swallowtail sp. 1 Cabbage White 22 Orange Sulphur 2 Variegated Fritillary 6 American Lady 4 Red Admiral 1 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 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 ========================================================================= ===========================================================================