Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:22:23 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 08/19/00 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, voice@capaccess.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island August 19, 2000 0715-1700 AM: sunny, 65 degrees, winds NW 10K PM: partly sunny, 75 degrees, winds NW 5K Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Marshall Iliff, Sue Ricciardi, Danny Bystrak, Ralph Cullison *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 25 Great Blue Heron 19 *GREAT EGRET *1 Mallard 44 (incl. 11 downy young) *Blue-WINGED TEAL *4 *RUDDY DUCK *1 (male) Osprey 17 Northern Harrier 4 (2 M, 1 F, 1 imm.) Cooper's Hawk 1 (immature) American Kestrel 1 (male) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *1 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *1 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *131 Killdeer 79 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *20 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *90 Spotted Sandpiper 10 (1ncl. 1 juvenile) *RUDDY TURNSTONE *2 *SANDERLING *5 (incl. 2 juvenile) *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *228 (incl. 4 juvenile) *WESTERN SANDPIPER *17 (incl. 7 juvenile) *LEAST SANDPIPER *277 (25% juvenile) *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *25 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER **1 (ADULT)** *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *27 *STILT SANPIPER *40 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *14 (juvenile) *LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER *1 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *1 Laughing Gull 13 (incl. 2 juvenile) Ring-billed Gull 191 (incl. 1 juvenile) Herring Gull 160 Great Black-backed Gull 608 (lots of juveniles) Caspian Tern 313 Common Tern 4 (2 adult, 2 sub-adult) Forster's Tern 14 Least Tern 9 Rock Dove 1 Mourning Dove 42 Chimney Swift 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Willow Flycatcher 2 empidonax sp. 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 12 White-eyed Vireo 2 Fish Crow 1 Purple Martin 4 Tree Swallow 1 Bank Swallow 60 Barn Swallow 60 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 4 Marsh Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 Gray Catbird 11 Northern Mockingbird 4 European Starling 236 Yellow Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 19 Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 46 (incl. 8 juvenile) Swamp Sparrow 13 (incl. 1 juvenile) Northern Cardinal 2 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 28 Red-winged Blackbird 146 Brown-headed Cowbird 13 House Finch 28 American Goldfinch 13 (nest found) MAMMALS Muskrat 2 Raccoon fresh tracks REPTILES turtle sp. 1 (head sticking up from mud) AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 1 BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 4 (incl. 2 male) Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4 (2 yellow; 2 black female) Spicebush Swallowtail 3 Cabbage White 34 Orange Sulphur 22 Cloudless Sulphur 8 Little Yellow 2 White M Hairstreak 1 Gray Hairstreak 14 Eastern Tailed Blue 11 Variegated Fritillary 3 Pearl Crescent 20 anglewing sp. 1 American Lady 1 Red Admiral 2 Common Buckeye 2 Red-spotted Purple 7 Monarch 34 Wild Indigo Duskywing 1 Common Sootywing 1 Broad-winged Skipper 2 MOTHS ctenucha moth sp. 8 (Any moth people know which species is/are in Maryland?) DRAGONFLIES Familiar Bluet 300 Orange Bluet 1 Rambur's Forktail 15 Common Green Darner 21 Twelve-spotted Skimmer 4 Blue Dasher 16 Wandering Glider 6 Spot-winged Glider 4 Carolina Saddlebags 1 Black Saddlebags 15 ADDENDUM: August 5, 2000 Eastern Towhee 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 ======================================================================== == ========================================================================