Date:         Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:54:41 -0400
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From:         "Eugene J. Scarpulla" <gscarp@EROLS.COM>
Subject:      Hart-Miller Island: 07/16/00
Comments: To: Dave Brinker <dbrinker@dnr.state.md.us>,
          Donna Finnegan <toadlady@fls.infi.net>,
          Jeff Cowell <jeff.cowell@ingrambook.com>,
          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
July 16, 2000
0710-1710
AM: partly sunny, 65 degrees, winds NE 5K
PM: cloudy, 75 degrees, winds E 5K
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz

*SPECIES OF NOTE

 Double-crested Cormorant     8
 Great Blue Heron             37
 Black-crowned Night-Heron    1 (juvenile)
 Canada Goose                 10
 Mute Swan                    3
 American Black Duck          10
 Mallard                      237 (incl 14 downy young)
 Ruddy Duck                   1 (male)
 Osprey                       21 (11 adult, 10 juvenile)
 Peregrine Falcon             1 (adult)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER         *10
 Killdeer                     28
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS          *13
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS           *383
 Spotted Sandpiper            37 (incl. 3 juvenile)
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER      *38
*WESTERN SANDPIPER           *19
*LEAST SANDPIPER             *440
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER          *4
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER      *220
 Laughing Gull                73
 Ring-billed Gull             1248
 Herring Gull                 165
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL     *4 (1st-SUMMER)
 Great Black-backed Gull      748
 Caspian Tern                 257
 Common Tern                  5
 Least Tern                   3
 Mourning Dove                4
 Yellow-billed Cuckoo         1
 Ruby-throated Hummingbird    1
 Downy Woodpecker             2
 Eastern Kingbird             9
 White-eyed Vireo             1
 Fish Crow                    1
 Purple Martin                74
 Tree Swallow                 40
 Bank Swallow                 84
 Barn Swallow                 159
 swallow sp.                  1500
 Tufted Titmouse              1
 Carolina Wren                1
 House Wren                   10
 Marsh Wren                   10
 American Robin               1
 Gray Catbird                 6
 Northern Mockingbird         1
 European Starling            36
 Yellow Warbler               14
 Common Yellowthroat          10
 Eastern Towhee               1 (juvenile)
 Song Sparrow                 39
 Swamp Sparrow                4
 Blue Grosbeak                2
 Indigo Bunting               3 (2 male, 1 female)
 Red-winged Blackbird         155 (many family groups)
 Brown-headed Cowbird         2 (1 male, 1 juvenile)
 Orchard Oriole               1
 House Finch                  10
 American Goldfinch           12

MAMMALS
 small bat sp.                1 (in flight mid-morning)
 Muskrat                      2
 Red Fox                      two pairs fresh tracks
 Raccoon                      fresh tracks

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad                 1 (new for the island)

BUTTERFLIES
 dark swallowtail sp.         7
 Cabbage White                50
 Orange Sulphur               16
 Cloudless Sulphur            2
 Gray Hairstreak              1
 Eastern Tailed Blue          2
 Red Admiral                  2

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com

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