Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:30:02 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 07/22/00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island July 22, 2000 0710-1645 AM: partly sunny, 65 degrees, winds N 5K PM: mostly cloudy, 80 degrees, winds SE 15K Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz, Marshall Iliff, Danny Bystrak, Greg Futral *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 11 Great Blue Heron 24 *GREAT EGRET *3 *SNOWY EGRET *1 *GLOSSY IBIS *1 Canada Goose 36 American Black Duck 4 Mallard 136 (incl. 19 downy young) *BLUE-WINGED TEAL *1 *COMMON MERGANSER *1 (female) *RUDDY DUCK *2 (1 male, 1 female) Osprey 20 (7 ad, 8 juv, 5 unk) Bald Eagle 1 (immature) Red-shouldered Hawk 1 American Kestrel 1 ((juvenile) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *80 Killdeer 56 (incl. 2 juv.) *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *42 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *1198 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *1 Spotted Sandpiper 29 (incl. 2 juv.) *RUDDY TURNSTONE *2 *RED KNOT *1 *SANDERLING *15 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *1967 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *229 *LEAST SANDPIPER *322 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *22 *STILT SANPIPER *7 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *194 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *1 Laughing Gull 135 (incl. 1 juv.) Ring-billed Gull 882 (incl. 2 juv.) Herring Gull 185 (incl. 1 juv.) *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *3 (2 1st-Sum, 1 3rd Sum) Great Black-backed Gull 667 (incl. 3 juv.) Caspian Tern 249 Common Tern 16 Forster's Tern 9 Least Tern 49 Mourning Dove 3 Chimney Swift 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Willow Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 9 White-eyed Vireo 1 Fish Crow 1 Purple Martin 11 Tree Swallow 20 N. Rough-winged Swallow 1 Bank Swallow 2020 Barn Swallow 80 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 12 American Robin 2 (incl. 1 juv.) Gray Catbird 3 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 6 Yellow Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 6 Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 55 Swamp Sparrow 9 (incl. 4 juv.) Northern Cardinal 1 Blue Grosbeak 3 Indigo Bunting 2 (male) Bobolink 2 Red-winged Blackbird 144 Common Grackle 3 (Purple) Orchard Oriole 1 House Finch 12 American Goldfinch 20 MAMMALS Muskrat 2 Red Fox fresh tracks large canid sp. fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 3 BUTTERFLIES Pipevine Swallowtail 11 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 (black female) dark swallowtail sp. 8 Cabbage White 29 Orange Sulphur 8 Cloudless Sulphur 2 Little Yellow 1 Gray Hairstreak 3 Eastern Tailed Blue 13 American Snout 1 Variegated Fritillary 1 Pearl Crescent 1 Question Mark 1 American Lady 1 Red Admiral 1 Common Buckeye 2 Monarch 4 Common Sootywing 1 Least Skipper 1 DRAGONFLIES Familiar Bluet 200 Orange Bluet 1 (new for the island) Rambur's Forktail 1 Common Green Darner 10 Blue Dasher 1 Wandering Glider 2 Spot-winged Glider 3 Black Saddlebags 1 Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland ejscarp@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================