Date:         Sun, 11 Jun 2000 17:42:00 -0400
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From:         "Eugene J. Scarpulla" <gscarp@EROLS.COM>
Subject:      Hart-Miller Island: 06/10/00
Comments: To: Dave Brinker <dbrinker@dnr.state.md.us>,
          Donna Finnegan <toadlady@fls.infi.net>,
          Jim & Denise Potyraj <d.potyraj@worldnet.att.net>,
          Jim Stasz <Jlstasz@aol.com>, John Wilson <jfwilson@dnr.state.md.us>,
          Steve Kopecky <steven.kopecky@usace.army.mil>,
          Voice of the Naturalist <voice@capaccess.org>
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Observations at Hart-Miller Island June 10, 2000
0710-1710
AM: sunny, 70 degrees, winds SW 5K
PM: sunny, 90 degrees, winds S 10K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

 Double-crested Cormorant     6
 Great Blue Heron             26
*GLOSSY IBIS                 *8
 Turkey Vulture               1
 Canada Goose                 9 (incl. 4 downy young)
 Mute Swan                    7
 Gadwall                      4
 American Black Duck          10
 Mallard                      338 (incl. 8 downy young)
 Lesser Scaup                 1 (male)
 Osprey                       17 (13 adult, 4 nestling)
 Peregrine Falcon             2 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER        *3
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER         *22
 Killdeer                     17
*WILLET                      *1 (EASTERN)
 Spotted Sandpiper            12
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER      *81
*LEAST SANDPIPER             *1
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER      *1
 Ring-billed Gull             558
 Herring Gull                 266
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL     *7 (4 1st-SUM, 3 2nd-SUM)
 Great Black-backed Gull      381
 Caspian Tern                 68
 Mourning Dove                3
 Willow Flycatcher            1
 Great Crested Flycatcher     1
 Eastern Kingbird             4
 American Crow                1
 Fish Crow                    2
 crow sp.                     2
 Purple Martin                1 (male)
 Tree Swallow                 13
 Barn Swallow                 15
 House Wren                   2
 Marsh Wren                   7
 American Robin               1
 Gray Catbird                 6
 Northern Mockingbird         3
 European Starling            9
 Yellow Warbler               15
 Common Yellowthroat          8
 Song Sparrow                 17
 Blue Grosbeak                1 (1st-spring male)
 Red-winged Blackbird         114
 Common Grackle               4 (Purple)
 Orchard Oriole               3
 House Finch                  4
 American Goldfinch           3

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                      1
 Raccoon                      fresh tracks

REPTILES
 Eastern Box Turtle           1 (male)

AMPHIBIANS
 Bullfrog                     1

BUTTERFLIES
 Black Swallowtail            1 (male)
 Cabbage White                235
 Orange Sulphur               32
 Summer Azure                 1
 Variegated Fritillary        14

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com

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