Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:28:56 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 09/09/00 Comments: To: birdfeeder@starpower.net, BNORDEN@dnr.state.md.us, d.potyraj@worldnet.att.net, dbrinker@dnr.state.md.us, jeff.cowell@ingrambook.com, 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 September 9, 2000 0710-1645 AM: cloudy, 70 degrees, winds SW 10K PM: sunny, 80 degrees, winds SW 10K FIELD TRIP: HOWARD COUNTY CHAPTER MOS Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Marge Cullison, Ralph Cullison, Karen Darcy, Darius Ecker, Jane Geuder, Ralph Geuder, Emy Holdridge, Bonnie Ott, Ron Polniaszek, Sue Polniaszek, Sue Ricciardi, Kate Tufts, Leo Weigant, Helen Zeichner *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 68 Great Blue Heron 16 Green Heron 1 Canada Goose 47 Mute Swan 1 American Black Duck 1 Mallard 37 (incl. 2 downy young) Blue-winged Teal 8 Osprey 3 Bald Eagle 1 (immature) Northern Harrier 3 (1 female, 2 immature) accipiter sp. (coop/sharp) 1 Merlin 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *1 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *29 Killdeer 13 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *4 Spotted Sandpiper 4 *WHIMBREL *1 (hudsonicus) *RUDDY TURNSTONE *2 *SANDERLING *8 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *537 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *7 *LEAST SANDPIPER *29 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *10 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER *9 (juvenile) *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *5 Laughing Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 52 Herring Gull 260 *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 801 Caspian Tern 118 Mourning Dove 15 Chimney Swift 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 7 Belted Kingfisher 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Kingbird 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 American Crow 5 Fish Crow 1 Tree Swallow 1 Bank Swallow 3 Barn Swallow 5 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Gray Catbird 3 Northern Mockingbird 5 European Starling 188 Magnolia Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 1 (Western) Common Yellowthroat 4 Song Sparrow 6 Swamp Sparrow 1 (Coastal Plain) Northern Cardinal 1 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 1 Red-winged Blackbird 23 Brown-headed Cowbird 83 blackbird sp. 40 House Finch 12 American Goldfinch 26 MAMMALS Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 1 BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 (yellow) Cabbage White 13 Orange Sulphur 25 Cloudless Sulphur 7 Variegated Fritillary 2 Pearl Crescent 5 Mourning Cloak 1 Painted Lady 1 Common Buckeye 3 Red-spotted Purple 5 Monarch 7 Silver-spotted Skipper 2 orange skipper sp. 10 tan skipper sp. 20 Virginia Ctenucha Moth 2 Rattlebox Moth 1 DAMSELFLIES & DRAGONFLIES Familiar Bluet 80 Common Green Darner 5 Twelve-spotted Skimmer 1 (male) Black Saddlebags 9 ADDENDUM: 08/26/00 House Wren 1 CORRIGENDUM: 08/26/00 White-rumped Sandpiper 2 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 ======================================================================== ==========================================================================