Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:30:35 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jim Stasz Subject: Hart-Miller Island, August 12, 2000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island August 12, 2000 0730-1515 AM: sunny, 65 degrees, winds N 20K PM: sunny, 70 degrees, winds N 20K Observers: Jim Stasz, Sue Riccardi, Bob Ringler, George Jett, Fred Shaffer, George Shaffer *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 26 Great Blue Heron 24 Canada Goose 51 American Black Duck 8 Mallard 83 (includes 4 broods) * NORTHERN SHOVELER 3 (Fall Arrival) Ruddy Duck 1 (male) Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 10 Northern Harrier 1 (immature) Cooper's Hawk 1 (immature) American Kestrel 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 (immature) *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *1 (adult) *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *81 Killdeer 24 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *4 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *214 Spotted Sandpiper 8 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *5 *SANDERLING *3 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *1106 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *34 *LEAST SANDPIPER *64 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *3 (adult) *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *16 *STILT SANPIPER *16 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *6 *LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER *2 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *1 Laughing Gull 13 Ring-billed Gull 174 Herring Gull 71 Great Black-backed Gull 512 (lots of juveniles) Caspian Tern 322 Common Tern 5 Forster's Tern 8 Least Tern 29 Mourning Dove 8 Chimney Swift 1 Eastern Kingbird 5 Purple Martin 15 Tree Swallow 1 N.Rough-winged Swallow 2 Bank Swallow 60 Cliff Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 40 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 2 Marsh Wren 3 Gray Catbird 4 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 60 Yellow Warbler 5 Common Yellowthroat 5 Song Sparrow 30 Swamp Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 30+ Common Grackle 1 (Purple) Brown-headed Cowbird 3 (juvenile) House Finch 4 American Goldfinch 4 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 BUTTERFLIES Pipevine Swallowtail 1 Black Swallowtail 6 (male) Spicebush Swallowtail 3 Cabbage White 10 Orange Sulphur 10 Cloudless Sulphur 1 Little Yellow 1 *RED-BANDED HAIRSTREAK *1 Gray Hairstreak 8 Eastern Tailed Blue 20 American Snout 1 Variegated Fritillary 1 Pearl Crescent 12 anglewing sp. 1 Common Buckeye 1 Monarch 6 Silver-spotted Skipper 1 Common Sootywing 3 Broad-winged Skipper 3 Wild Indigo Duskywing 4 DRAGONFLIES Familiar Bluet 120 Orange Bluet 2 Rambur's Forktail 6 Common Green Darner 11 12-spotted Skimmer 4 Seaside Dragonlet 4 Blue Dasher 11 Wandering Glider 4 Spot-winged Glider 4 Black Saddlebags 33 Jim Stasz North Beach MD jlstasz@aol.com ======================================================================== To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================== == ========================================================================