Date:         Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:28:37 -0400
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From:         "Eugene J. Scarpulla" <gscarp@EROLS.COM>
Subject:      Hart-Miller Island: 07/02/00
Comments: To: Dave Brinker <dbrinker@dnr.state.md.us>,
          Donna Finnegan <toadlady@fls.infi.net>,
          Jim & Denise Potyraj <d.potyraj@worldnet.att.net>,
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          Steve Kopecky <steven.kopecky@usace.army.mil>
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Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 2, 2000
0810-1655
AM: sunny, 75 degrees, winds S 5K
PM: sunny, 85 degrees, winds S 15K
Observer: Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

 Double-crested Cormorant     30
 Great Blue Heron             85
*GLOSSY IBIS                 *1
 Canada Goose                 35 (incl. 5 downy young)
 Mute Swan                    5
 Wood Duck                    1
 Gadwall                      2
 American Black Duck          1
 Mallard                      540 (incl. 78 downy young)
 Green-winged Teal            1
 Ruddy Duck                   1 (male)
 Osprey                       28 (18 adult, 10 nestling)
 Peregrine Falcon             2 (adult)
 Killdeer                     53
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS           *4
 Spotted Sandpiper            11
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER      *2
*WESTERN SANDPIPER           *1
*LEAST SANDPIPER             *39
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER      *3 (hendersoni)
 Laughing Gull                2
 Ring-billed Gull             1027 (incl. 1 juvenile)
 Herring Gull                 129 (incl. 1 juvenile)
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL     *6 (4 1st-SUM, 2 2nd-SUM)
 Great Black-backed Gull      623 (incl. 1 juvenile)
 Caspian Tern                 45
 Least Tern                   28
 Mourning Dove                3
 Yellow-billed Cuckoo         1
 Belted Kingfisher            1 (male)
 Downy Woodpecker             1
 Willow Flycatcher            2
 Eastern Kingbird             5
 American Crow                1
 Fish Crow                    5
 Purple Martin                2
 Tree Swallow                 70
 Barn Swallow                 40
 Carolina Wren                2
 House Wren                   3
 Marsh Wren                   6
 American Robin               1
 Gray Catbird                 3
 Northern Mockingbird         1
 European Starling            19
 Yellow Warbler               2
 Common Yellowthroat          15
 Song Sparrow                 23
 Swamp Sparrow                2
 Northern Cardinal            1
 Blue Grosbeak                1
 Indigo Bunting               4
 Red-winged Blackbird         196 (1ncl. 7 juvenile)
 Common Grackle               1 (Purple)
 Orchard Oriole               1
 House Finch                  1
 American Goldfinch           4

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                      1
 Red Fox                      fresh tracks
 Raccoon                      fresh tracks

BUTTERFLIES
 Zebra Swallowtail            1 (new for the island)
 Black Swallowtail            1 (female)
 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail    6 (black female)
 Spicebush Swallowtail        2
 dark swallowtail sp.         3
 Cabbage White                188
 Clouded Sulphur              2
 Orange Sulphur               42
 Cloudless Sulphur            1
 Variegated Fritillary        1
 Pearl Crescent               1
 American Lady                1
 Monarch                      1
 Common Sootywing             1

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com

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