Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 18:10:00 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 05/27/00 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 27, 2000 0715-1455 AM: cloudy, 65 degrees, winds NE 5K PM: cloudy, drizzle/showers, 65 degrees, winds NE 5K Observers: Gene Scarpulla, J.B. Churchill, Greg Futral, Amy Hoffman, Mark Hoffman, Greg Miller, Jim Stasz [To all observers: If you have any additions or changes to my compiled list, please e-mail the changes to me. Thanks. GS] *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 25 Great Blue Heron 19 *GREAT EGRET *1 *GLOSSY IBIS *1 Canada Goose 21 Gadwall 2 (male) American Wigeon 1 (male) American Black Duck 5 Mallard 123 (82 M, 37 F, 4 dy) Blue-winged Teal 1 (male) Northern Shoveler 1 (male) Green-winged Teal 1 (male) Lesser Scaup 2 (male) Red-breasted Merganser 4 Ruddy Duck 12 (10 male, 2 female) Osprey 10 Northern Harrier 1 (female) Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) American Coot 1 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *135 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *28 Killdeer 10 (incl. 2 juvenile) *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *4 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *8 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *1 *WILLET *3 (EASTERN) Spotted Sandpiper 20 *WHIMBREL *1 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *8 *RED KNOT *4 *SANDERLING *1 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *1484 *LEAST SANDPIPER *28 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *68 *DUNLIN *1386 peep sp. 1500 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *28 *AMERICAN WOODCOCK *1 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *4 (2 MALE, 2 FEMALE) *RED-NECKED PHALAROPE *6 (1 MALE, 5 FEMALE) *LITTLE GULL *1 (1st-summer) Bonaparte's Gull 2 (1st-summer) Ring-billed Gull 480 Herring Gull 245 *ICELAND GULL *1 (1ST-SUMMER) *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *10 (7 1-S, 2 2-S, 1 3-S) Great Black-backed Gull 170 Caspian Tern 54 Common Tern 2 Mourning Dove 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Willow Flycatcher 5 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 2 American Crow 1 Fish Crow 2 Purple Martin 3 Tree Swallow 10 Bank Swallow 9 Barn Swallow 53 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 5 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 8 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 1 Yellow Warbler 16 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 3 Song Sparrow 7 Indigo Bunting 3 (male) Bobolink 3 Red-winged Blackbird 60 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 (1 male, 1 female) Orchard Oriole 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 House Finch 1 American Goldfinch 2 Butterflies Cabbage White 11 Orange Sulphur 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 ========================================================================= ===========================================================================