Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 18:20:28 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 06/03/00 Comments: To: Dave Brinker , Donna Finnegan , Jim & Denise Potyraj , Jim Stasz , John Wilson , Karl Blankenship <70363.13@compuserve.com>, 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 June 3, 2000 0705-1625 AM: sunny, 65 degrees, winds NW 20K PM: sunny, 75 degrees, winds NW 5K Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Dave Czaplak, Mary Ann Todd, Debbie Terry, Karl Blankenship (Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay "Bay Journal") *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 6 Great Blue Heron 10 *GLOSSY IBIS *8 Turkey Vulture 2 Canada Goose 84 (71 adult, 13 young) Gadwall 2 (male) American Black Duck 4 Mallard 116 (71 male, 45 female) Blue-winged Teal 1 (male) Northern Shoveler 1 (male) Green-winged Teal 2 (1 male, 1 female) Lesser Scaup 1 (male) Red-breasted Merganser 1 (female) Ruddy Duck 6 Osprey 12 (10 adult, 2 nestling) Northern Harrier 2 (1 imm, 1 imm female) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) American Coot 1 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *31 Killdeer 7 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *2 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *1 Spotted Sandpiper 12 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *4 *SANDERLING *4 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *1018 *LEAST SANDPIPER *8 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *16 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *1 *DUNLIN *39 *STILT SANDPIPER *1 Ring-billed Gull 171 Herring Gull 323 *ICELAND GULL *2 (1 1st-SUM, 1 2nd-SUM) *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *7 (6 1st-SUM, 1 2nd-SUM) Great Black-backed Gull 306 Caspian Tern 101 Common Tern 1 Forster's Tern 2 *BLACK TERN *1 Mourning Dove 4 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Willow Flycatcher 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 3 White-eyed Vireo 1 American Crow 2 Fish Crow 2 crow sp. 7 Purple Martin 3 Tree Swallow 19 Cliff Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 14 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 11 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 6 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 3 Cedar Waxwing 1 Yellow Warbler 8 Common Yellowthroat 6 Eastern Towhee 2 Song Sparrow 13 Swamp Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird 70 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Orchard Oriole 2 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 2 REPTILES Eastern Box Turtle 1 (male) BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 2 (male) Cabbage White 1000 Orange Sulphur 47 Summer Azure 2 (new for the island) Variegated Fritillary 55 Eastern Comma 1 Mourning Cloak 8 American Lady 2 Red Admiral 1 Monarch 4 Common Checkered Skipper 1 Common Sootywing 1 DRAGONFLIES (ID by Dave Czaplak) Familiar Bluet 10 (new for the island) Rambur's Forktail 1 (new for the island) Common Green Darner 20 Swamp Darner 1 (new for the island) Calico Pennant 8 (new for the island) Eastern Pondhawk 3 Seaside Dragonlet 1 Needham's Skimmer 1 (new for the island) Twelve-spotted Skimmer 1 (new for the island) Great Blue Skimmer 2 (new for the island) Blue Dasher 3 (new for the island) Spot-winged Glider 200 Carolina Saddlebags 1 (new for the island) Black Saddlebags 3 [Hopefully, Dave's efforts today will spark some interest for more dragonfliers to come visit Hart-Miller Island.] 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================