Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:10:50 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 08/05/00 Comments: To: birdfeeder@starpower.net, d.potyraj@worldnet.att.net, dbrinker@dnr.state.md.us, jeff.cowell@ingrambook.com, jfwilson@dnr.state.md.us, Jlstasz@aol.com, steven.kopecky@usace.army.mil, toadlady@fls.infi.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island August 5, 2000 0715-1700 AM: sunny, 65 degrees, winds NE 15K PM: sunny, 85 degrees, winds NE 15K Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz, Marshall Iliff, Matt Hafner, Sue Riccardi, Debbie Terry, Don Burggraf, Danny Bystrak, Gregory Bulte *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 34 Great Blue Heron 17 *SNOWY EGRET *1 *GLOSSY IBIS *1 Canada Goose 34 Mute Swan 2 American Black Duck 7 Mallard 138 (incl. 29 downy young) *GREEN-WINGED TEAL *1 Osprey 10 Northern Harrier 1 (immature) Peregrine Falcon 1 (immature) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *3 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *105 Killdeer 59 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *17 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *621 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *3 Spotted Sandpiper 19 *UPLAND SANDPIPER *1 (fly by) *RUDDY TURNSTONE *6 *SANDERLING *49 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *5275 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *213 *LEAST SANDPIPER *126 (incl. 1 juvenile) *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *1 (adult) *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER **1 (ADULT)** *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *113 *STILT SANPIPER *49 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *27 *LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER *2 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *1 Laughing Gull 31 Ring-billed Gull 308 (incl. 6 juvenile) Herring Gull 101 (incl. 1 juvenile) *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (2ndS moulting to 3rdW) Great Black-backed Gull 560 (lots of juveniles) Caspian Tern 276 (incl. 4 juvenile) Common Tern 21 Forster's Tern 17 sterna sp. 30 Least Tern 129 Rock Dove 1 Mourning Dove 36 Chimney Swift 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Willow Flycatcher 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 10 White-eyed Vireo 1 Horned Lark 1 (juvenile) Purple Martin 6 Tree Swallow 2 Bank Swallow 105 Cliff Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 48 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 14 American Robin 3 Gray Catbird 3 Northern Mockingbird 6 European Starling 13 Cedar Waxwing 7 Yellow Warbler 9 Prairie Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 10 Song Sparrow 33 Swamp Sparrow 12 Northern Cardinal 1 Blue Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 2 Red-winged Blackbird 397 Common Grackle 1 (Purple) Brown-headed Cowbird 1 (juvenile) House Finch 18 American Goldfinch 15 AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 2 BUTTERFLIES Zebra Swallowtail 1 Pipevine Swallowtail 1 Black Swallowtail 5 (male) Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 (yellow) Spicebush Swallowtail 4 Cabbage White 12 Orange Sulphur 7 orange/clouded sulphur sp. 1 (white female) Cloudless Sulphur 3 Little Yellow 2 *RED-BANDED HAIRSTREAK *2 (NEW FOR ISLAND) *WHITE M HAIRSTREAK *7 (NEW FOR ISLAND) Gray Hairstreak 14 Eastern Tailed Blue 8 Summer Azure 7 American Snout 7 Variegated Fritillary 2 Pearl Crescent 7 Question Mark 1 American Lady 1 Common Buckeye 2 Red-spotted Purple 1 Monarch 13 Silver-spotted Skipper 1 Common Sootywing 2 Broad-winged Skipper 8 DRAGONFLIES Familiar Bluet 112 Common Green Darner 14 *HALLOWEEN PENNANT *1 (NEW FOR ISLAND) Seaside Dragonlet 1 Needham's Skimmer 1 Blue Dasher 11 Wandering Glider 1 Spot-winged Glider 7 Carolina Saddlebags 1 Black Saddlebags 22 ADDENDUM: July 29, 2000 Blue Grosbeak 1 Common Grackle 5 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 ========================================================================== =========================================================================