Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 10:22:32 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 08/26/00 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 26, 2000 0710-1700 AM: sunny, 70 degrees, winds W 5K PM: sunny, 85 degrees, winds S 10K Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Jonathan Alderfer, Gwen Brewer, George Jett, Ray Kiddy, Sue Ricciardi, Sherman Suter *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 31 Great Blue Heron 23 Canada Goose 24 Mute Swan 5 Mallard 36 (incl. 6 downy young) Green-winged Teal 1 Osprey 9 Northern Harrier 1 (female) Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *47 Killdeer 34 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *3 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *27 Spotted Sandpiper 6 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *3 *RED KNOT *1 (juvenile) *SANDERLING *5 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *341 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *6 *LEAST SANDPIPER *798 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *1 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *2 *STILT SANPIPER *3 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *3 (juvenile) Laughing Gull 15 Ring-billed Gull 95 Herring Gull 235 *MYSTERY GULL *1 (going into third winter) size of Herring Gull; big chested; large, flat head; mantle color "pale-ish" slate gray, midway between North American Herring Gull (L. a. smithsonianus) and British Lesser Black-backed Gull (L. f. graellsii); brown primaries; much dusky streaking around eyes; streaking on sides of breast; big bill, pale yellowish with black ring; yellow iris; straw yellow legs; pinkish feet. Great Black-backed Gull 917 Caspian Tern 142 Common Tern 1 Forster's Tern 22 Mourning Dove 53 Chimney Swift 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 Downy Woodpecker 2 (1 male, 1 female) empidonax sp. 1 Eastern Kingbird 7 Blue Jay 1 Tree Swallow 10 N. Rough-winged Swallow 1 Bank Swallow 33 Cliff Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 110 Carolina Wren 2 Marsh Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 3 Northern Mockingbird 5 European Starling 155 Cedar Waxwing 4 Common Yellowthroat 8 Scarlet Tanager 1 Song Sparrow 12 Swamp Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 2 Indigo Bunting 3 (incl. 2 female) Bobolink 11 Red-winged Blackbird 210 Brown-headed Cowbird 79 Baltimore Oriole 1 House Finch 14 American Goldfinch 7 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS Black Swallowtail 2 Spicebush Swallowtail 2 Cabbage White 14 Orange Sulphur 22 Cloudless Sulphur 12 White M Hairstreak 1 Eastern Tailed Blue 1 *GREAT SPANGLED FRITILLARY *1 (NEW FOR ISLAND) Pearl Crescent 2 American Lady 1 lady sp. 1 Red Admiral 1 Common Buckeye 1 Red-spotted Purple 8 Monarch 26 Broad-winged Skipper 2 Virginia Ctenucha Moth 2 DAMSELFLIES & DRAGONFLIES Familiar Bluet 200 Common Green Darner 9 Eastern Pondhawk 2 (female) *SLATY SKIMMER *2 (NEW FOR ISLAND) *COMMON WHITETAIL *1 (NEW FOR ISLAND; MALE) Twelve-spotted Skimmer 5 Blue Dasher 3 (male) Wandering Glider 2 Black Saddlebags 9 CORRIGENDUM: 08/19/00 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *2280 *VIRGINIA CTENUCHA MOTH *8 (NEW FOR ISLAND) 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 ======================================================================== ==========================================================================