Date:         Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:42:18 -0400
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From:         "Eugene J. Scarpulla" <gscarp@EROLS.COM>
Subject:      Hart-Miller Island: 07/08/00
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>,
          Jeff Cowell <jeff.cowell@ingrambook.com>,
          Dave Cowell <dcowell1@twcny.rr.com>
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Observations at Hart-Miller Island
July 8, 2000
0710-1655
AM: sunny, 60 degrees, winds N 15K
PM: sunny, 80 degrees, winds S 5K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Jeff Cowell (Murfreesboro, TN), Dave Cowell
(Oswego, NY)

*SPECIES OF NOTE

 Double-crested Cormorant     9
 Great Blue Heron             23
*GLOSSY IBIS                 *1
 Canada Goose                 29
 American Black Duck          2
 Mallard                      202 (incl. 15  downy young)
 Osprey                       23 (15 adult, 8 nestling)
 Peregrine Falcon             1 (adult)
 Killdeer                     67
*AMERICAN AVOCET             *4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS           *14
 Spotted Sandpiper            17
*WESTERN SANDPIPER           *13
*LEAST SANDPIPER             *405
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER      *2 (hendersoni)
 Laughing Gull                6
 Ring-billed Gull             1384
 Herring Gull                 56
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL     *5 (4 1st-SUM, 1 2nd-SUM)
 Great Black-backed Gull      417
 Caspian Tern                 124
 Forster's Tern               2
 Mourning Dove                5
 Downy Woodpecker             1
 Willow Flycatcher            3
 Eastern Kingbird             7
 crow sp.                     1
 Purple Martin                3
 Tree Swallow                 59
 Bank Swallow                 21
 Barn Swallow                 82
 House Wren                   5
 Marsh Wren                   13
 American Robin               3
 Gray Catbird                 6
 Northern Mockingbird         2
 European Starling            37
 Yellow Warbler               9
 Common Yellowthroat          16
 Eastern Towhee               1
 Song Sparrow                 27
 Swamp Sparrow                3
 Northern Cardinal            1
 Blue Grosbeak                4
 Indigo Bunting               1
 Bobolink                     1
 Red-winged Blackbird         115
 House Finch                  1
 American Goldfinch           5

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                      1

BUTTERFLIES
 Zebra Swallowtail            1
 Spicebush Swallowtail        4
 dark swallowtail sp.         7
 Cabbage White                110
 Orange Sulphur               29
 Cloudless Sulphur            1
 Little Yellow                1
 lady sp.                     1
 Monarch                      3

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com

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