Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:22:13 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 09/16/00 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island September 16, 2000 0715-1655 AM: sunny, 55 degrees, winds NW 10K PM: mostly cloudy, 70 degrees, winds NW 5K MARYLAND FALL COUNT 2000 Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Sue Ricciardi, Danny Bystrak, Anne Brooks, Judy Burke *SPECIES OF NOTE Pied-Billed Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 49 Great Blue Heron 11 Green Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 2 Mute Swan 2 Wood Duck 1 Mallard 23 Blue-winged Teal 1 (male) Northern Shoveler 5 Green-winged Teal 6 Bald Eagle 6 (3 adult, 3 immature) Northern Harrier 4 (immature) Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 Cooper's Hawk 2 American Kestrel 1 (female) Peregrine Falcon 3 (2 adult, 1 immature) Virginia Rail 1 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *2 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *3 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *33 Killdeer 8 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *1 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *4 Spotted Sandpiper 1 *SANDERLING *40 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *290 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *3 *LEAST SANDPIPER *25 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *2 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER *7 (juvenile) *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *20 *STILT SANDPIPER *1 Laughing Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 16 Herring Gull 149 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (adult summer) Great Black-backed Gull 437 Caspian Tern 13 Rock Dove 1 Mourning Dove 31 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee 4 empidonax sp. 1 Eastern Phoebe 13 Eastern Kingbird 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 1 Tree Swallow 30 Barn Swallow 12 Carolina Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 4 House Wren 18 Marsh Wren 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Gray Catbird 16 Northern Mockingbird 18 Brown Thrasher 2 European Starling 120 Northern Parula 1 Magnolia Warbler 7 Palm Warbler 33 (Western) Black-and-white Warbler 1 American Redstart 8 Common Yellowthroat 23 Eastern Towhee 1 Savannah Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 17 Swamp Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 2 Blue Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting 2 Bobolink 8 Red-winged Blackbird 20 Brown-headed Cowbird 60 House Finch 4 American Goldfinch 30 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 3 BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS Black Swallowtail 4 Cabbage White 7 Orange Sulphur 13 Gray Hairstreak 2 Eastern Tailed Blue 2 American Lady 3 Red Admiral 2 Common Buckeye 6 Red-spotted Purple 1 Monarch 58 Clouded Skipper 1 Sachem 1 orange skipper sp. 6 dark skipper sp. 3 Virginia Ctenucha Moth 110 DAMSELFLIES & DRAGONFLIES Familiar Bluet 40 Common Green Darner 2 Common Whitetail 1 Carolina Saddlebags 1 Black Saddlebags 32 CORRIGENDUM: (all previous reports) Change Rattlebox Moth to ermine moth sp. 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================